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...Significance. Stella Dallas is an excellently written novel dealing with a genuine problem???the problem of the woman who marries, as the Victorians called it, " above her station," and does her best to fit into her new environment but cannot, while her children can. The central character of Stella is exceedingly well drawn, without obvious propagandizing or a straining for flashy effect. Stella is first of all a human being, not a type, and the same is almost as true of the other principal characters ? even the somewhat pluperfect and superaesthetic Mrs. Morrison...