SETTING

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PLOT

ANALYSIS

GLOSSARY

to overlook

in full leaf

cockades

to prod some

prodigious

cadaverous

to ponder

a shock of white hair

to come down in the world

to go to rack and ruin

a farm hand

a coat of arms

to go mouldy

to drag sth

bottom (of a chair)

to scour

scullery

to prop

to twirl sth

to thrust sth

shaft of light

to fumble with

1. In this story V.Woolf uses a framing narrative: Mrs Ivimey tells a group of friends a story that her great-grandfather had told her. Identify the structural components of the story and the frame:

When do the frame and the story merge?

2. Single out the passages in which different temporal plains merge and it seems to the listeners of the story that they are in it.

1. What is the setting of the framing narration:

a) What peculiarity of the club is mentioned in the opening sentence?

b) What atmosphere does the description of the mansion maintain? What details help to create the atmosphere?

c) At what time does the narration take place?What associations do you make with this time? What kind of atmosphere does this time setting create?

2. Identify the passages describing the place and time of the action of the story told by Mrs

Ivimey? What atmosphere is created by the details?

NARRATOR

1. What kind of narrator tells the story:

a) first person, b) omniscient third person, c) limited third person?

2. With which character does the narrator align her perspective? Does the style of the third-person narration differ from the style of Mrs Ivimey's monologues?