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AFurlan - Modernist Fiction: V. Woolf and J. Joyce - Comprhension questions from Monday and Tuesday
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Comprehension questions from V. Woolf's Monday or Tuesday (page 531)
- My reaction to V. Woolf's writing is both interest and confusion, because of the absence of a
precise structure and plot - The story does not have a clear plot. Only a few scattered events are described, as they appear from the
perspective of a flying heron. - Plot is almost absent; the only real character is the heron, and there is no structure: the few
conversations reported are broken ("Sugar? No, thank you"), and the real
world is substituted by the impressions the heron gets from its fast
flight. The narrator is a third person external one, although he seems to
disappear under the text. - I think because she wanted to render the world as it appears to a heron's eyes, and also to our eyes; it is a
criticism of the 19th century style of writing, which tried to
depict reality "as it is".