She stopped. David and Iris each had a hand on the gramophone. It must be hidden; yet must be close enough to the audience to be heard. Well, hadn't she given orders? Where were the hurdles covered in leaves? Fetch them. Mr. Streatfield had said he would see to it. Where was Mr. Streatfield? No clergyman was visible. Perhaps he's in the Barn? "Tommy, cut along and fetch him." "Tommy's wanted in the first scene." "Beryl then . . ." The mothers disputed. One child had be chosen; another not. Fair hair was unjustly preferred to dark. Mrs. Ebury had forbidden Fanny to act because of the nettle-rash. There was another name in the village for nettle-rash.

Mrs. Ball's cottage was not what you might call clean. In the last war Mrs. Ball lived with another man while her husband was in the trenches. All this Miss La Trobe knew, but refused to be mixed up in it. She splashed into the fine mesh like a great stone into the lily pool. The criss-cross was shattered. Only the roots beneath water were of use to her. Vanity, for example, made them all malleable. The boys wanted the big parts; the girls wanted the fine clothes. Expen

Another thing that these questions and answers and jumping around accomplish is showing how the character is reflected within. In the excerpt the first few questions, the ones not included in quotations, seem to show what is going on inside of Miss La Trobe's head. She is wondering all of these thoughts in her head and attempting to answer them. Then other voices join in in the paragraph who actually begin to answer her, telling her that Tommy is wanted in the first scene and cannot go fetch Mr. Streatfield. These other voices help give the reader another view on what is going on.

In Between the Acts, Woolf uses her characters to show that humans are not much different, no matter what their nationality, economical class, or social class, the essential heart of man remains the same. This can be seen through out this novel because there is a sense of being stuck into everyday life and following out their duties of husband, wife, son, etc. There is also the token village idiot, which in some sense can be seen in every society.

The other trees were magnificently straight. They were not too regular; but regular enough to suggest columns in a church; in a church without a roof; in an open-air cathedral, a place where swallows darting seemed, by the regularity of the trees, to make a pattern, dancing, like the Russians, only not to music, but to the unheard rhythm of their own wild hearts.

ses had to be kept down. Ten pounds was the limit. Thus conventions were outraged. Swathed in conventions, they couldn't see, as she could, that a dish cloth wound round a head in the open looked much richer than real silk. So they squabbled; but she kept out of it. Waiting for Mr. Streatfield, she paced between the birch trees.

The idea of interior vs. exterior events is also relevant in this excerpt. The interior thoughts of Miss La T

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Approximate Word count = 1250
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)