1. In Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf combines interior with omniscient descriptions of character and scene. How does the author handle the transition between the interior and the exterior? Which characters' points of view are primary to the novel; which minor characters are given their own points of view? Why, and how does Woolf handle the transitions from one point of view to another? How do the shifting points of view, together with that of the author, combine to create a portrait of Clarissa and her milieu? Does this kind of novelistic portraiture resonate with other artistic movement's of Woolf's time?
Q: How does the author handle the transition between the interior and the exterior?
回覆刪除I think most of the time Woolf first uses the first person point of view to “speak out” someone’s thought and then followed by the person’s name and the word “thought” to remind the readers that the description is someone’s thought.
And sometimes Woolf would again emphasizes the first person point of view is belonged to whose thought by using the word “thought” again. After that, Woolf would go to the description of the exterior, for instance,
I know all that, Peter thought; I know what I’m up against, he thought, running his finger along the blade of his knife,…(69).
Lunching with Lady Bruton, it came back to her. He has left me; I am alone for ever, she thought, folding her hands upon her knee (70).
Woolf also uses other writing skills to combine interior and exterior, but the usage of the word "thought" is the easiest way and a common method for the readers to distinguish them.
Millie