Learning Paths » 5A Interacting
1. At first reading
Woolf's fiction writing my reaction was a sense of confusion and complexity.
2. Really "it
doesn't happen nothing". Indeed there isn't a plot. The text doesn't follow a
chronological order, which in traditional fiction is given by the events
happening instead of modernist fiction when the novelist wrote by the point of
view of the character. In Monday or Tuesday the text is told by an heron's
point of view.
3. The plot doesn't
exist and the character is only one: the heron. Indeed there isn't any
dialogue, but the text is an heron's inner monologue.
4. Her objective is
to show the reality as it is: "Is the reality like this?" (from V. Woolf's The Common Reader) she was referring to the novel of 19th century).
She represent the reality how our mind see it, so she uses the technique of
shifting of the perspectives: characters share the vision making the work of
art that visible to others (from Nicole L. Urquhart's Moment of Being in V. Woolf's Fiction)