2. • Elizabeth enters the room when her mother
rests. Miss Kilman waits for her on the
landing
• Miss Kilman wears an unflattering mackintosh
coat
• She was a victim of anti-German discrimination
• She had turned into a Church and feels she does
not envy women she pitted them
3. • Miss Kilman wishes Clarissa to fell like a tree.
Trees with their extensive root system, are like
the soul, so this metaphor suggests that Miss is
out to kill souls
• Clarissa struggles to protect her soul
• She feels that Kilman had taken her daughter
from her
• «You are taking Elizabeth to the stores?»
• «Miss Kilman said she was»
4. • Clarissa thinks that love and religion are the
cruelest things in the world
• While thinking this Clarissa watches an old
woman in the house opposite her climbing the
stairs and looking out the window.
• Interplay between communication and privacy.
Clarissa struggles to understand why people
need privacy, and what makes communication so
difficult as Clarissa grows older, she reflects
more but communicates less.
5. • Mss Kilman struggles to control her desire to
resemble Clarissa and prays to god.
• Petticoat
6. • All professions are open to women.
• Elizabeth considers become a doctor or a
farmer or go into Parliament.
• It seems likely that she will probably follow her
parents into an upper-class life.
7.
8. • The rooms of a house are a metaphor for
the soul.
• The figure of the old woman also suggests
both the consolation of the human soul and
its loneliness.
