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ARomano - Exercises about Virginia Woolf, pag 530
by ARomano - (2013-02-10)
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Comprehension:

  • The story doesn’t have a real plot, but is is a kind of descriptive sequence: but it doesn't describe any particular thing. It seems as if the narrator follows impetus form the nature, without any logical sense combining a lot of different images. So I think it is difficult to understand the meaning of the text.

 

  • Focusing on the title, I think the story is about a typical day of a person or of an heron. The narrator seems to describe its point of view, what it sees while he is flying. But, in my opinion, the narrator goes beyond, analyzing or guessing what it is thinking about observing the world from that prospective.

 

  • Woolf’s narrative is unusual for many reasons: there is no a certain character. The reader can identify only an heron and a “Miss Thin-gummy”. He/she knows nothing about them except the place where they are and some possible thought of the characters. In addition, there are no sequences, the text is organized following a kind of stream of consciousness, linking different emotion or things saw or thought of who represents the point of view.