The lady in the looking glass
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The document discusses Virginia Woolf's short story "The Lady in the Looking Glass" and poses discussion questions about the story. It asks the reader to analyze elements like the narrator's perspective of the character Isabella Tyson, the symbolic objects used to depict her psychological traits, and the significance of the title and ending paragraph that leaves Isabella empty and exposed. The discussion prompts analyze themes of reflection and perception in the story.
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The lady in the looking glass
- 1. “ The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection” By Virginia Woolf
- 2. Let’s Reflect! William Makepeace Thackeray said: “ The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion.” Can you associate this with the story? Explain. Can you find a quotation in the story similar in meaning to this one?
- 3. In our previous class, we worked on “stream of consciousness”. What is missing in a stream-of-consciousness story? a) a narrator b) a plot c) a conflict d) or a description Can you prove the other elements are present in the story?
- 4. Points to discuss !! How do you describe the narrator of this story? What is the narrator’s attitude toward Isabella Tyson? What material objects does the narrator use to imagine Isabella’s life? What personality or psychological traits do these objects represent in Isabella? What is the significance of each part of the title of this story? What does the title imply about the story’s purpose? About Isabella as a character?
- 5. What is the connection between the last paragraph (below) of the story and the rest? Is there one true view of Isabella Tyson? “ At once the looking-glass began to pour over her a light that seemed to fix her; that seemed like some acid to bite off the unessential and superficial and to leave only the truth. It was an enthralling spectacle. Everything dropped from her -- clouds, dress, basket, diamond -- all that one had called the creeper and convolvulus. Here was the hard wall beneath. Here was the woman herself. She stood naked in that pitiless light. And there was nothing. Isabella was perfectly empty. She had no thoughts. She had no friends. She cared for nobody. As for her letters, they were all bills. Look, as she stood there, old and angular, veined and lined, with her high nose and her wrinkled neck, she did not even trouble to open them.”