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“Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting.”
“[…] a ghostly couple.”
The use of an adjective to describe the couple is an indication that the ghost story is not a conventional one. Instead of writing “a couple of ghosts,” which would clearly define the type of character of the story, Virginia Woolf uses the term “ghostly,” which provides the ghost characters with an ethereal, unreal trait.
“But it wasn’t that you woke us.”
The use of “us” in this sentence adds a layer to the point of view of the story. It reflects the ambiguity of the narrative: It is unclear whether the narrator is talking to the reader, as in Quotation 1, or mentally addressing the ghosts.
By Virginia Woolf
A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
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A Room of One's Own
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Between The Acts
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Flush: A Biography
Flush: A Biography
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How Should One Read a Book?
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Jacob's Room
Jacob's Room
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Kew Gardens
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Modern Fiction
Modern Fiction
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Moments of Being
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Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
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Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway
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Orlando
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The Death of the Moth
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The Duchess and the Jeweller
The Duchess and the Jeweller
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The Lady in the Looking Glass
The Lady in the Looking Glass
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The Mark on the Wall
The Mark on the Wall
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The New Dress
The New Dress
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The Voyage Out
The Voyage Out
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The Waves
The Waves
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Three Guineas
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