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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: looked out of the window and said, all in a jerk, very rudely, it would
be too rough for her tomorrow. She would be sick.
It annoyed him that she should have made him speak like that, with Mrs
Ramsay listening. If only he could be alone in his room working, he
thought, among his books. That was where he felt at his ease. And he
had never run a penny into debt; he had never cost his father a penny
since he was fifteen; he had helped them at home out of his savings; he
was educating his sister. Still, he wished he had known how to answer
Miss Briscoe properly; he wished it had not come out all in a jerk like
that. "You'd be sick." He wished he could think of something to say to
Mrs Ramsay, something which would show her that he was not just a dry
To the Lighthouse |
