The Waves by Virginia Woolf
The Waves by Virginia Woolf The Waves follows six characters throughout their lives from childhood to after middle age. Each section is matched with an introduction of a day's cycle of the sun, a metaphor for the rise and decline of a human life. Against all of this is the common theme of waves, a force in constant motion, forever overlapping and pushing forward. The six characters (Bernard, Neville, Louis, Susan, Jinny, and Rhoda) often come together around a seventh character named Percival, who is the only one not narrating. The six alternate within each chapter, except the last which is narrated entirely by Bernard, standing forth with their impressions of their lives as individuals and as a part of the group. This stream of consciousness narrative shows each character's experience of both their interior and exterior world as events transpire throughout their lives, with each character having a distinct worldview and view of themselves that either changes or is reinforce...
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