Commentary+on+the+Looking+Glass

=THE LOOKING GLASS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF THE LOOKING GLASS IN THE STORY=

The Looking Glass serves as an allegory for the self reflection of Isabella Tyson. The story is Virginia Woolf's way to examine herself, and her own character using modern narrative technique.

In real-life, a person does not use a looking glass to look at another person, but a looking glass is used to look ar one's self (the looking-glass is actually a more archaic term for the mirror). The mirror a.k.a Looking Glass here tells us about the fact that Isabella Tyson is actually Virginia Woolf. The imagery and the use of the looking glass in the story referred to the character of the lady in the story, as the title and the subtitle alone is a means to analyse the lady's character in the story. To get deeper and understand this story better however, we must first look at how the author uses the subtlety of things around her to convey the mood and the flow of the narrative.

The first picture we see in the story was the comparison and contrast of the interior and the exterior of the house. This is known as the modernist theme of the 'split self'. It is the depiction of one figure with many levels of character in a narrative. This theme is accentuated through the metaphor of the looking glass. The first picture we receive in the story is the contrast between the interior of the house and its exterior as seen through the looking glass. The interior is a world of movement. It is portrayed as a dynamic environment that is constantly in a state of transition from one state to another.