The Sea - Section 1: Part 4 (pp. 52-68) Summary & Analysis

This Study Guide consists of approximately 46 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Sea.
Related Topics

The Sea - Section 1: Part 4 (pp. 52-68) Summary & Analysis

This Study Guide consists of approximately 46 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Sea.
This section contains 834 words
(approx. 3 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy The Sea Study Guide

Section 1: Part 4 (pp. 52-68) Summary

This section begins with a brief interlude set in the present, in which the narrator contemplates the night-time silence of The Cedars and wonders what goes on in the other rooms beneath the blanket of darkness and quiet. He imagines, for example, that the Colonel has a secret passion for Miss Vavasour, and that Miss Vavasour sometimes cries herself to sleep (a surmise based on her sometimes coming to breakfast with red, tired eyes). He wonders whether she "blame[s] herself for all that happened and grieve[s] for it still," but doesn't offer any indication of what that "all" might be. "What a little vessel of sadness we are," he writes, "sailing in this muffled silence through the autumn dark."

This experience of night leads the narrator to comment that he thinks most about the Graces...

(read more from the Section 1: Part 4 (pp. 52-68) Summary)

This section contains 834 words
(approx. 3 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy The Sea Study Guide
Copyrights
BookRags
The Sea from BookRags. (c)2024 BookRags, Inc. All rights reserved.