Mansfield, At The Bay Flashcards
What is the opening line?
What is the opening line of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves?
‘Very early morning. The sun WAS not yet risen, and the whole of crescent bay was hidden’ - At the Bay
‘The sun HAD not yet risen. The sea was indistinguishable from the sky’ - The Waves
Who interrupts Stanley’s morning swim?
Jonathon Trout
How does ‘old mrs Fairfield’ describe the morning?
What makes her notice?
‘Perfect’
The door and windows are open
‘Gaze out of the open door’
CHAPTER 3
‘Wide open window’
‘The sea sounded. Through…’
‘The sea sounded. Through the wide open window streamed the sun’
CHAPTER 3
‘I thought…’
Who says this?
‘I thought you seemed rather - ‘
Stanley to Beryl, after she forgets to add sugar to his morning tea. He is ‘astonished’
CHAPTER 3
‘The heartlessness of the woman!..’
‘The heartlessness of the woman! The way she took it for granted that you slaved away for them’
‘Through the wide…’
‘Through the wide open window streamed the sun’
Chapter 3
How does Stanley interrupt mrs Fairfield’s ‘gaze’
Exact quote
‘You might cut me some of that bread’
Chapter 3
Describe the opening scene of chapter 6
Linda lounges in a steamer chair, under a manuka tree - which is native to New Zealand
She admires the prettiness of the tree, with its ‘yellow petals’ which ‘shone’ and begins to question why people treat the tree with such indignation, recalling how one would ‘brush them off’ as the ‘horrid little things got caught in ones hair’
‘She liked to do it herself, thank you’
‘She liked to do it herself, thank you’
Something informal about the narratorial voice here
CHAPTER 5, Lottie decides not to follow Kezia, Isabel and the other boys as she prefers to go in the sea alone
‘The moonlight stared…’
‘The moonlight stared and glistened’
CHAPTER 14
Beginning with the opening line of ‘the sun had not yet risen’ The night time setting marks the temporal cycle which the narrative has undergone
