The Years, key Quotations

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Created on: 09-01-17 14:36

SELVES: 1891, Eleanor about Morris at the bar, public and private selves, dualities and the self as a performance

[gestures "that belonged to his public life...there was a tone in his voice that made her smile; it was his private voice"

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SELVES: 1880, Delia as a possible representation of Woolf herself who, in a diary entry wrote about her mother's death and how she "how I laughed, for instance, behind the hand that was meant to cover my tears"

"we're both acting" Delia thought, stealing a glance at her father, "but he's doing it better" / she congratulates him as he leaves the bedroom after the mother's death, saying "it was like a scene in a play"

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SELVES: 1910, Rose, the idea of splitting identity, not fitting into one identity/ binary categories, also idea of dualities

"It puzzled (Rose); it made her feel that she was two people at the same time"

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SELVES: 1910, Kittys cousin at the opera " link to the hammer sound which brings different worlds together

as if he were in two worlds at the same time at once and had to draw them together" -

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SPACES: 1907, contrast of interior and exterior space: Maggie as she comes into Sara's bedroom after the ball

"After the ballroom, it looked so untidy"

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"It puzzled (Rose); it made her feel that she was two people at the same time"

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as if he were in two worlds at the same time at once and had to draw them together" -

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"After the ballroom, it looked so untidy"

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The Years, key Quotations