Tag: Virginia Woolf
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Answer: The couples who got together are:
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Answer: “Minta cried out that she had lost her grandmother’s brooch” (Woolf, p.63) Question: What did Minta do after she discovered her brooch missing? Answer: Minta Doyle, Paul Rayley, Andrew Ramsay, and Nancy Ramsay searched for the brooch. (Woolf, p. 64)
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Mrs Ramsay is worried about Roger because he went out walking, presumably with his sister Nancy. However, the reader has access to information that Nancy is not with Roger, but with Andrew. (Woolf, p. 64)
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Answer: Minta Doyle is afraid of bulls. “She seemed to be afraid of nothing – except bulls.” (Woolf, p. 62)
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Answer: Mildred is the nanny of Prue, Nancy, Rose, Cam, Andrew, Jasper, Roger and James Ramsay. “Happily, Mildred came in to fetch them, and the bustle distracted them.” (Woolf, p. 52)
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Question: What does Lily Briscoe look like? Answer: Mrs Ramsay said Lily Briscoe had “little Chinese eyes” and “puckered up face”. (Woolf, p. 17) Question: Does Lily have a beau? Answer: Mrs Ramsay predicted Lily would never be married; she said “she would never marry”. (Woolf, p. 17) Question: Was Mrs Ramsay correct in her…
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No, Doris Kilman does not like parties. She wanted to keep Elizabeth Dalloway with her, so that she could not return home, to get ready for her mother’s party. Doris wasn’t invited to attend Mrs Dalloway’s party. It was probably because the party guests would belong to a different social class that Miss Kilman couldn’t…
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Does Doris Kilman live for a secret ambition? Miss Kilman is German. Her surname used to be spelt Kiehlman. After World War I, the British and people all over the world, hated Germans. She felt she was biased against. Not only born poor, clumsy and unattractive, Doris lost her first good job. Now she works…
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Mrs Dalloway rejected Doris Kilman because in her opinion, ” ……. but love and religion would destroy that, whatever it was, the privacy of the soul.” (Woolf, p. 116) Clarissa Dalloway loved to keep her boundaries and privacy. Miss Kilman loves to convert people and that, according to Mrs Dalloway, meant not allowing people to…
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Mrs Dalloway dislikes Doris Kilman because the latter tries to convert people, to believe and follow her church. Clarissa thought, “Did she not wish everybody merely to be themselves? (Woolf, p. 116) Related post: This is the main book review https://booksreviewsandmore.com/why-does-peter-walsh-have-an-axe-to-grind-with-clarissa-dalloway/