Daniel Terziev 20th century novel

  One of the most striking passages in Mrs. Dalloway to me was her initial walk to go and pick up flowers. Particularly, I was fascinated by the way that Virginia Woolf was able to lay out all of Clarissa's thoughts and indirectly tell us so much about what type of a person she is in such a short amount of time. We get to understand Clarissa’s struggles, fears, and regrets, what makes her happy, and most interesting my opinion, we get to see her try and convince herself that she made the right choices in life. The style of narration that Woolf uses here is perhaps why this introduction works so well. We are not some 3rd party watching Clarissa nor is she narrating, rather we have sort of just popped in and are along for the ride while she goes on with her thoughts, unaware of our presence. This gives a really raw feeling to the insight we get. It is not biased, and we are able to tell when Clarissa is intentionally not going through the rabbit hole of a certain thought, or reaf...

Milk and Change in the mezzanine` Howie's analysis throughout “The Mezzanine” paints a picture of someone who is very clearly obsessed with innovation, however, there are also times when innovation is forced to battle with Howies unwillingness to change. One of the moments where Baker best displays this part of Howie's character is in the section talking about the change from using milk delivery services to buying milk from the store. I think this passage brilliantly displays the sad feeling of change we have all felt, through a very analytical character such as Howie, and shows how he responds when his emotions get the best of him.  In chapter 6, Howie describes how the deliveries started out being three times a week with the Onondaga Dairy company, however, as time went on they dropped to just two times a week. Furthermore, milk packages from different companies started arriving each week as company after the company went out of business. The quality of the milk drops a...