How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"Death is woven in with the violets." (4b.67)
When Jinny gets some male attention while she's out to dinner with her friends, Rhoda and Louis think of her as participating in some kind of ritual that resembles a marriage ceremony. In their fantasy, there's someone decked out in flowers, a fire, a celebratory procession… all sorts of glam. However, this image quickly turns ominous (in The Waves? What a shocker!) as they "forebode decay" and then see death "woven" in with this joyous occasion. This moment may forshadow Percival's death in the next chapter.
Quote #5
"He is dead," said Neville. "He fell. His horse tripped. He was thrown. The sails of the world have swung round and caught me on the head. All is over. The lights of the world have gone out. There stands the tree which I cannot pass." (5b.1)
This is the moment we learn about Percival's death. Here, Neville references the tree he "cannot pass," an image that first appears in Neville's thoughts when he talks about hearing about the man who got his throat cut.
Quote #6
"Such is the incomprehensible combination," said Bernard, "such is the complexity of things, that as I descend the staircase I do not know which is sorrow, which joy. My son is born; Percival is dead. I am upheld by pillars, shored up on either side by stark emotions; but which is sorrow, which is joy? I ask, and do not know, only that I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world." (5b.7)
As with Rhoda and Louis's vision of a ceremony that is half wedding/half funeral, Bernard's thoughts here present life and death simultaneously, the implication being that they are two sides of the coin for him.