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Quote #4
After looking at it for a moment in some confusion the old man bent his ear to it and seemed to answer a voice speaking from it, for he began talking about the forests of Uruguay which he had visited hundreds of years ago in company with the most beautiful young woman in Europe. (14)
Interesting that the old man and the married man are both obsessed with women from their pasts…Why do Woolf's older men tend to center their memories around women from their youth? What's the connection here between women and memory? Or between women and youth? The women that these men remember seem to represent not just objects of desire for them, but also something central to the men's own identities—or at least, their former, youthful identities.
Quote #5
"Wherever does one have one's tea?" she asked with the oddest trill of excitement in her voice, looking vaguely round and letting herself be drawn on down the garden path, trailing her parasol, turning her head this way and that way, forgetting her tea, wishing to go down there and then down there, remembering orchids and cranes among wild flowers, a Chinese pagoda and a crimson crested bird; but he bore her on. (28)
Trissie wants to venture through the garden, to explore—but the young man directs her movement and draws her down a particular path that he desires. Even in the openness of the garden, she is caught in a very constrained gender role and her movements are dictated by a controlling male figure. Then again, she doesn't really resist the young man. What kind of statement is being made here about gender relations? Does this dynamic between the two characters qualify as a minor conflict of sorts?