ENGA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Free Indirect Speech, Overcoat, List Of Narrative Techniques
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Lecture 9: turning and turning in the widening gyre of mrs. dalloway. Rain seems to promise some hope of revitalization. Light gyre of concord to balance the dark gyre of discord. Peace comes from letting go rather than clutching, giving rather than keeping. Only person who moves out of the pathway is the daughter (new generation. Peter and richard enclose clarissa: only richard crosses paths. People turning in a gyre they always return back to the dalloway household (the house seems to have a magnetic pull) Septimus keeps seeing his friend (evan) being blown up. Unity map shows that it all takes place in one place (london), on one day in. Centre of gyre is one protagonist clarissa dalloway even though we see multiple povs, clarissa"s trajectory is where we begin and end. The reader has access to both the inter and intrasubjective experience. Mrs. dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
