Sunday, September 9, 2007

my views on Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf

Kew Gardens shows and expresses beautiful scenery and atmosphere. The relationships of the couples seen while walking through the flower covered garden made the voices of the people,animals, and insects without actually having to have the characters saying alot out loud.
The characters linger back to the past and for every character the symbolic event or object is different. Simon had the symbol of his wife and children as he went back to lily and his proposal to her 15 years before. His wife's was the kiss and as she described it as "the mother of all my kisses all my life".Ghosts were used to describe the individual persons' memory, happiness, and reality.The snail toward the end of the story seemed to symbolize Simon's goal, him getting married and starting a family. the colors also described the relaxation, stress, and calmness of the people in the garden and the gardens surroundings.

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