![]() ![]() ![]() To be honest, all the five main characters are rather boring. And there is no Heathcliff in the other sense either: the mysterious, dark, potent character that you want to know all about and despair cause you never do. In a manner, Night and Day is very observational: there is no one Jane Eyre to identify with and there is no couple like Heathcliff and Catherine who everyone is obviously supposed to be rooting for. The story is about engagements – Katharine, William, Ralph, Mary and Cassandra fall in and out of love with one another and set up and break down engagements. ![]() The novel is an interesting mix of the conventional 19 th century love-story, which was obviously the model Woolf had in mind, and of that stuff, which would make Woolf the Modernist starshine she was. This was her best attempt at a boring book. Woolf probably would have not been able to write a bad book. Night and Day is not a bad book, not at all. It has now probably been a month since I finished it, and I must admit it still hasn’t awoken in me the same feelings of wonderment and exhilaration as Woolf’s books usually do. Even Woolf herself didn’t consider her second novel much, calling it her “exercise in the conventional style”. Night and Day has a little bit of a dreary reputation so I left it to be the last one to read it was preceded by the wonderful Flush and the epic The Years. Reading Night and Day was the concluding part of my ingenious plan to read all of Woolf’s novels before I’d start my PhD on her. ![]()
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