Transcript A Cup of Tea”

“A Cup of Tea”
#1
• She enjoys shopping there because the
shopkeeper flatters her and makes her feel
respected
• She considers buying an enamel box
#2
• Curzon Street seems cold, alien, and
frightening to Rosemary
#3
• She offers to help the girl because she wants
to appear gracious, generous, and
adventurous
#4
• He says that she is pretty
• Rosemary finds money to give Miss Smith to
get her out of the house
#5
• She asks if he thinks that she is pretty
#6
• Rosemary is deeply insecure, and she has little
or no identity that is not a reflection of other’s
opinions of her
#7
• They suggest that her emotional state is
delicate
#8
• She is insecure and hopes that others will see
her as generous
• The girl is right to distrust her because her
motives are suspect
#9
• Rosemary sends Miss Smith away because
Philip’s view of the girl is a threat to
Rosemary’s security
• Because her motives are shameful, Rosemary
tells her husband that Miss Smith wanted to
go
#10
• Her questions reveals that she, despite her
vanity, needs reassurance that she is attractive
to her husband
• It also reveals that she measures her worth by
what he thinks of her
#11
• She is like the box in that Rosemary enjoys the
idea of “having” Miss Smith, just as she
admires the look of her hands holding the box
• Miss Smith is threatening because she has her
own identity
#12
• She disapproves of their attitudes and morals
• She makes this clear by her attitude toward
Rosemary’s life and her descriptions of
Rosemary’s and Philip’s treatment of Miss
Smith
#13
• The dashes and ellipses suggest Rosemary’s
inability to form complete thoughts, just as
she is unable to form a complete life
#14
• Rosemary might be disillusioned with herself –
if she were more self-aware
• Miss Smith is probably disillusioned with the
entire part of the social circle of which
Rosemary is a part
#15
• opinion
Literary elements #1
• One of Rosemary’s motives was to feel better
about herself or to make herself look good to
others
#2
• The passage on page 1099 – Miss Smith
speaks with “pain in her voice”
• This passage reveals that she is desperate and
cannot believe Rosemary is sincere
“A Room of One’s Own”
#1
• Trevelyan remarks that women were married
very early; the bishop believed women could
never have been Shakespeare’s equal
• Woolf draws a parallel between the bishop’s
ideas about women and his ideas about cats:
just as cats cannot go to heaven, women
cannot write
• Both comments are silly and opinionated
#2
• Woolf believes women could have genius but
states that because of society’s pressures,
they could not express it
• She uses the example of a fictional sister of
Shakespeare’s whose genius was destroyed
because she was a woman
#3
• Woolf believes “Anon,” the anonymous
authors of many poems, may have been
female
• Her point is that women did not dare use their
own names
#4
• She believes a gifted woman would have lost
her health, her sanity, or even her life through
desperation
• She states that society would have tortured
such a woman
#5
• Woolf wanted to persuade her readers that
women’s genius has always existed but has
been unrecognized
#6
• Woolf’s long paragraphs create an imaginative
world for the reader
• Shorter paragraphs would have made the
essay less like the author’s own stream of
consciousness
Literary elements #2
• The overall tone of the essay is angry
• The last passage (a woman who wrote would
have produced “twisted and deformed” work)
is evidence of her anger