Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2004

Hello:

Care to comment on the presence and effect of SHE in the following,
pls?

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The realty woman, with her lipstick on her teeth and her powder and
concealer layered in the crepe under her eyes, her pret-a-porter teeth
and machine-washable wig, SHE smiles at Brandy Alexander.
[Chuck Palaniuk, Invisible Monsters, Ch. 2, p. 25]
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Is this stress/emphasis via repetition and aposition?
How would you feel if "she" would not be present?
What's the extra effect brought by it?
Is it somehow req'd by the long description inserted in between the
introductory component of the phrase and the final one?

Thanks.
Marius Hancu