Together and Apart (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- First Published: 1943
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: About 1924
- Setting: London
- Principal Characters: Miss Ruth Anning, Mr. Roderick Serle
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Self, Communication, Personality, Parties
- Locales: London, England
The Story
Introduced to each other for the first time by Mrs. Dalloway at her party, Miss Ruth Anning and Mr. Roderick Serle are left by their hostess to talk together. Miss Anning had been standing at the window, looking at the evening sky; yet, while “the sky went on pouring its meaning” into her, on Mr. Serle's sudden presence beside her she feels that the sky has changed and is not “itself, any more, but . . . shored up by [Serle's] tall body, dark eyes, grey hair, clasped hands, the stern melancholy face.” Just as the sky is “shored up,” so too are Miss...
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