". . . his eyes, his pocket-knife, his smile, his grumpiness and; when millions of things had utterly vanished--how strange it was!--a few sayings like this about cabbages." (4)
Peter Walsh is a man who can never seem to make up his mind. Woolf has Peter on the fence with a lot of different ideas and events that take place. Instead of straight out telling the reader this, Woolf has Peter play around with his pocket knife on numerous occasions: opening and closing it repeatedly. The pocket-knife never really being opened or closed, shows who Peter never really is sure about anything.
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YES! This is it! How can the rest of your entries put all of the pieces together like this one?
ReplyDeleteinteresting moment + Woolf deliberately shaping the text + explaining symbolic/thematic importance = solid entry