Things to Discuss for Paper # 2
Engl 310
Spring 2004
 
 

• DASHES     A dash equlas two hyphens
• The second stanza asks the questions -- id the eyes "bore it long? -- this could mean that maybe the grief felt by the speaker is something that had been there for a long time.
• PUNCTATING AND INTRODUCING  QUOTATIONS
• The last line in the stanza makes this idea seem true "It feels so old a pain."
• There is truly an intimacy between these two, “for in some ways no one understood him, felt with him, as Clarissa did.”
• Peter, on the other hand, is unable to escape his feelings for Clarissa.  Even now, upon thinking about his love for another woman, he thinks, “(his Daisy) and her two small children became more and more lovely as Clarissa looked at them.”
• On one hand, we soon begin to see that Clarissa has class snobbishness about her when she shows annoyance over the fact that "her own daughter, her Elizabeth, cared not a straw for either of them [gloves nor shoes]," (Woolf 11).
• COMMAS WITH WHICH AND THAT
• When he is reminiscing about their youth together, the reader learns that, “He admired her courage; her social instinct; he admired her power of carrying things through” (62).

 
• LACK OF SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT
• Another important instance in the novel where flowers symbolize a character’s thoughts and perceptions are in Peter’s case.
• OTHER AGREEMENT ISSUES
•  This allows the reader direct access to all the thoughts and feelings of each character instead of having it sifted through a narrator.
• Stream-of-consciousness works especially well in Mrs. Dalloway because it allows the reader to see into the varied thoughts, feelings, and reactions that occur in the mind of the several different characters throughout the course of the same day.