She is well-educated, thoughtful, and very The rock group Modest Mouse took their band name from a phrase in this story. The Narrator. ‘ Kew Gardens ’. The narrator describes the ways that new technologies impede human The only substantial character in this story is the narrator; everything that occurs is filtered heavily through her thoughts and stream of consciousness reflections. Much of Woolf’s best fiction offers us a new perspective on the world, and in this story she seems to adopt a snail’s eye view, focusing on four groups of people as they pass a flowerbed in the London botanical gardens The narrator is a woman who appears to be similar to Virginia Woolf herself in class and circumstance. Their long lives and slow yet constant growth provide an alternative to rapid and ruinous human development. She seems to be an upper-class wife who is expected to be a domestic creature who looks after the cleanliness of the house. Though never named, the story heavily implies that the narrator is a woman sitting in her living room with someone, likely her husband. She is also clearly highly educated; her diction and tone display a high degree of formal command of the If humanity is associated with a fast-paced lifestyle and destructive materialism, trees symbolize the opposite of that—namely, slowing down, growth, and being present.
She is well-educated, thoughtful, and very The rock group Modest Mouse took their band name from a phrase in this story. The Narrator. ‘ Kew Gardens ’. The narrator describes the ways that new technologies impede human The only substantial character in this story is the narrator; everything that occurs is filtered heavily through her thoughts and stream of consciousness reflections. Much of Woolf’s best fiction offers us a new perspective on the world, and in this story she seems to adopt a snail’s eye view, focusing on four groups of people as they pass a flowerbed in the London botanical gardens The narrator is a woman who appears to be similar to Virginia Woolf herself in class and circumstance. Their long lives and slow yet constant growth provide an alternative to rapid and ruinous human development. She seems to be an upper-class wife who is expected to be a domestic creature who looks after the cleanliness of the house. Though never named, the story heavily implies that the narrator is a woman sitting in her living room with someone, likely her husband. She is also clearly highly educated; her diction and tone display a high degree of formal command of the If humanity is associated with a fast-paced lifestyle and destructive materialism, trees symbolize the opposite of that—namely, slowing down, growth, and being present.
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