Street Haunting Quotes Flashcards
How much the speaker enjoys walking in London?
‘rambling the streets of London’ is ‘the greatest pleasure of town life in winter’
When walking you lose your identity?
we ‘become part of that vast republican army of anonymous trampers’
She wonders about the lady with dwarfism?
‘What, then, is it like to be a dwarf?’
Woolf refers to her as ‘deformed’
The dwarfs reaction to trying on the shoe?
She presents her foot - ‘It was arched. It was aristocratic.’
‘Her manner became full of self-confidence’
What happens when the dwarf returns to the streets?
‘the ecstasy faded, knowledge returned’
‘by the time she had reached the street again she had become a dwarf’
The people on their passage from work to home?
They are wrapt ‘in some narcotic dream, now that they are free from the desk’
What is the speaker’s reaction to escape?
‘That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures’
Why does she assume the role of a shopper?
The ruthlessness of the capitalist economy and its dangerous gender politics are evident from the beginning when it becomes imperative for the narrator to assume the role of a shopper, if only on the flimsy pretext of buying a pencil, in order to walk the streets and to undertake her “London Adventure” “safely”
