[Vwoolf] Mrs Ramsay summed up at last

[Linda Chown]

Add something of this Mrs Ramsay, no? Even a word or two to suggest she is there like that...????
    Linda Chown

“All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.”

On Sep 28, 2017, at 4:40 PM, Linda Chown <chownl at gvsu.edu<mailto:chownl at gvsu.edu>> wrote:

It is excellent but for one thing:  it leaves out her need for and joy in reading, introspection, that lingering darkness.
I would like to see a couple of words anyway bringing that out.
     Sincerely,
        Linda Chown

On Sep 28, 2017, at 4:06 PM, Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com<mailto:stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com>> wrote:

“Immensely sociable, and given to lavish exaggeration, Mrs Ramsay likes to have an intimate knowledge of everyone around her. She is content only if she is the centre of her world, and, with her own eight children and various hangers-on, strives to create one big happy family. She is dominant and egotistical but extremely kind and caring, a strong woman well able to deal with the somewhat difficult MR RAMSAY.”

“Dictionary of Literary Characters” (Chambers, 2004)

Stuart
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