"Millicent Bruton, whose
lunch parties were said to be
extraordinarily amusing, had
not asked her"
Sally Seton
"The purity, the integrity, of her feeling for
Sally. It was not like one's feeling for a man"
"she sat on the floor - that
was her first impression"
"she did shock people"
"completely reckless; did
the most idiotic things out of
bravado... absurd"
"her gift... her way with flowers"
Flowers = emotions
Nota:
Sally was able to manipulate people's emotions (even Clarissa's father was falling for her) and since Clarissa is particularly sensitive (love of flowers in part 1) she falls deeply in love
Indian context
Campaigns for
independence
started 1921
Bloomsbury set
Virginia had
affair with Vita
Many homosexual relationships
and affairs e.g. Duncan Grant
and David Garnett
Peter
Pocket knife
"He had his knife out.
That's so like him"
"What an
extraordinary habit
that was... always
playing with a knife
"tilting his pen-knife towards her green dress"
Interrupts Clarissa
in time of peace
"It was like running one's face
against a granite wall"
"Why make him suffer?"
"he was a failure!"
"Always making one
feel, too, frivolous;
empty-minded"
"It was his silly
unconventionality"
"thrown by those
uncontrollable forces,
thrown through the air,
he burst into tears"
Clarissa
Insecure
"Lady Bruton asking Richard to
lunch without her made the moment
in which she had stood shiver"
"He has left me; I am
alone for ever"
Virginal and innocent
"She knew nothing about sex"
"Like a nun withdrawing, or
a child exploring a tower"
"an attic room... the sheets...
tight stretched... narrower and
narrower would her bed be"
"she could not dispel a
virginity preserved
through childbirth"
"It was all over for her"
"she had lived a lifetime in them
and had run away, had lived with
Peter, and it was now over"
"by artificial light the green
shone, but lost its colour
now in the sun"
Clarissa's shallowness
Nota:
When you don't know her she seems charming, but when her true light shines through you see that she is not as colourful and as kind as one could believe
Green
Jealousy of others
Connection to
Miss Kilman
As she mends it "quiet
descended on her, calm,
content"
Nota:
She likes mending people, helping people
Yellow hat
Cowardice
"they spoke of marriage
always as a catastrophe"
"most exquisite moment
of her whole life"
"Fear no more, says the heart,
committing its burden to some sea"
"there's nothing in the world so bad for some women
as marriage, he thought; and politics; and having a
Conservative husband, like the admirable Richard