... the pavement, for a purpose? But for what purpose? (16). The narrator plunges in the mind of Septimus and reports in free indirect discourse the thoughts and feelings of this character towards the scene. The shell-shocked Septimus is terrified by this scenery, he thinks that "some ... As a consequence, a character exists in the minds of other characters, reporting mutual events from the past that connect them. Virginia Woolf called this method "tunneling process", the various characters´ thoughts of the past, providing the reader with information of a certain character, serve as tunnels...

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• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate