Death was defiance. Death was
an attempt to communicate...
there was an embrace in death"
Ellie Henderson
"her weaponless state
"What a thing to
tell Edith!"
The Prime Minister
Annotations:
Stanley Baldwin
"He looked so ordinary"
"this symbol
of what they
all stood for,
English
society"
The party
Catalyst for showing gulf
between Peter and
Clarissa
Has own
life
Free indirect discourse
"did it matter in the
least, one Prime
Minister more or less?"
"so it wasn't a
failure after
all!"
"The snobbery of the English"
"How they loved dressing up
in gold lace and doing
homage!"
"Lady Bruton
detested illness
in the wives of
politicians"
"Debarred
by her
sex"
Clarissa
"she was at her
worst - effusive,
insincere"
"Why, after all, did
she do these things?"
"felt herself a stake
driven in at the top
of the stairs"
"There was a breath of
tenderness; her severity,
her prudery, her
woodenness were all
warmed through now"
"Kilman her enemy"
Sally Seton
"She loomed through
a mist... to think of
her under this roof"
Annotations:
Mist = uncertainty of memory. Since it has been so long and Clarissa did not expect it, her recognition of Sally would have been like the slow realisation of what something is coming through a mist
"she
had the
simplest
egotism"
"But her voice was
wrung of its old
ravishing richness"
"her warmth; her vitality"
Link to Septimus
"the Bradshaws, whom she disliked"
"one wouldn't
like Sir William to
see one
unhappy"
"the Bradshaws
talked of death"
"somehow it
was her disaster
- her disgrace"
"Life is made
intolerable"
"She walked to
the window"
"She felt
somehow
very like him"
"at their age, she and Peter would
have been arguing all evening"
"If it were now to
die, 'twere now to
be most happy"
Annotations:
Othello, also said when Clarissa's thinking about happy she was to know Sally