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A review by lilithsumoza
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
3.0
As with most classics, I had a rough time getting into it. The writing was very foreign to me, and the first half of the book was very slow. Then as time went on, there were just too many characters for me to keep track of, so they some of them tended to blend together. I did appreciate some of the insights the characters, and by extension Woolf herself, had on the nature of life. I especially loved the recurring symbolism of water being something that isolates the main characters from civilization, making them act differently than they would back in rigid England.
The ending felt so bland. While I understood what Woolf was trying to say about how human beings tend to quickly go back to the cheerful ways of life if something tragic doesn't specifically happen to them, I felt as if Terence and Rachel's family were just left with a loose end. The fact that we don't know any of what happens to them afterward is just completely unsatisfying to me.
The ending felt so bland. While I understood what Woolf was trying to say about how human beings tend to quickly go back to the cheerful ways of life if something tragic doesn't specifically happen to them, I felt as if Terence and Rachel's family were just left with a loose end. The fact that we don't know any of what happens to them afterward is just completely unsatisfying to me.