Answer. "tis some visitor." The reader feels suspense as to whom this visitor may be.
Explanation::He tries to calm himself down, telling himself that "tis some visitor" who has dropped by unexpectedly. But who is this visitor?
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I think that it is mostly Jeannette that has a strong reaction to fire. After returning from the hospital, Jeannette becomes enthralled by fire. Her parents support this, insistent that she not be defeated or afraid of that which led to her injury. Not only does Jeannette resume cooking hot dogs on the stove (to the delight of her mother) but she also starts to steal her father’s matches.
The answer is D: The search for self.
Although this is not an exclusively literary modernist theme, it sure was one of the main themes that Virginia Woolf, one of the most notable modernist writers, developed. Throughout this novel, and specifically in the excerpt cited, Mrs. Dalloway, as well as many other female and male characters, continually expose their train of thoughts (“stream of consciousness” as it usually is called in literary studies) as the struggle to identify their personal subjectivity, showing a constant struggle and an intermittent quest for one´s own self.
Answer:
It's telling the theatre to be quiet.
