| The Duchess and the Jeweler is the story of the | | | | words of the character.Woolf has also took the |
| world's greatest jeweler who had promised his mother | | | | advantage of using imagery in order to disclose to the |
| to become the richest jeweler in the world in his | | | | reader this state of dissatisfaction of Oliver through |
| childhood but now that his dream has materialized he | | | | her language of signs and images as an alternative to |
| does not feel satisfied. So trying to achieve | | | | the words. She resembles Oliver to a camel that is |
| satisfaction, knowingly he buys fake pearls from a | | | | entrapped in the zoo, and is not satisfied with its life, |
| Duchess in exchange for passing a whole weekend | | | | because it can see "the blue lake and the fringe of |
| with her daughter whom he is in love with. The | | | | palm trees in front of it." In other words, Oliver wants |
| purpose of this essay is to show how Virginia Woolf | | | | more and more and in spite of all his gatherings he |
| has successfully presented the inner mind of the | | | | feels like a mere camel that is thirsty of the water it |
| characters, their struggle and their communication | | | | sees but is not able to reach it. Also the reader reads |
| through the least amount of verbal communication | | | | the Oliver's loneliness and his need of a soul mate, |
| among them.The silent communication created by | | | | when Oliver remembers the days when "mademoiselle |
| Woolf's "The Duchess and the Jeweler" is firstly the | | | | used to pick one (red rose) every morning and stick it |
| communication between the reader and the story and | | | | in his button-hole." This picture gives the reader the |
| secondly the communication between the characters | | | | understanding that Oliver is feeling the lack of an anima |
| in the text themselves. In better words this story firstly | | | | in his life; that there has been someone who probably |
| reveals the mind of the characters to the reader | | | | Oliver had a sense of love for (image of red rose) and |
| through the least amount of explicit expression of their | | | | who has left Oliver due to his greed for money. This is |
| states and secondly presents the interaction among | | | | confirmed later on by the text itself: "but mademoiselle |
| the characters of the story through the fewest | | | | had married Mr. Pedder of the local brewery- no one |
| possible dialogues among them.The first stance in the | | | | stuck roses in his buttonholes." This sentence again |
| unvoiced communication between the reader and the | | | | confirms his loneliness and his need of a wife, though |
| story is the revelation of the childhood memories of | | | | this is not mentioned directly by Oliver himself.The |
| Oliver Bacon that takes place without the author's | | | | revelation of the dominance of Oliver's mother over his |
| giving voice to them. The very first acquaintance of | | | | life and the fact that she has been dictating him all her |
| the reader with Oliver's childhood takes place when he | | | | life and is even now after her death dictating her, is |
| addresses himself: "you who began life in the filthy little | | | | understood through his constant remembrance of his |
| alley" and then falls in to his childhood memories. This | | | | mother in all his choice makings in his life though this is |
| very short statement of Oliver to himself is very | | | | never mentioned directly in the story. He remembers |
| expressive of his childhood and also of his attitude | | | | his mother reprimanding him when he stole dogs as a |
| towards this period of his life. Through the author's | | | | child and when he buys the fake pearls from the |
| prior descriptions of the living place of Oliver, his | | | | duchess at the end of the story he asks the |
| servant and his habits it is revealed that Oliver Bacon | | | | forgiveness of the old woman in the picture and again |
| is a very affluent man now while this short | | | | feels like a little boy. So these constant rememberings |
| self-address reveals his childhood poverty. Also it is | | | | of his mother also imply to the reader his mother's |
| through his retrospections that the readers get aware | | | | dominance over him even after her death though this |
| that he has started with selling stolen dogs, continued | | | | is just understood and never stated.The reader also |
| with selling watches in a little counter, and finally has | | | | gets aware of Oliver's arrogance and pride, in his |
| promoted to his present profession as a jeweler. So it | | | | contacts with his workers though there hardly takes |
| is mostly through Oliver's silent remembrances that the | | | | place a conversation with them; In the first contact of |
| reader gets familiar with his early days. Also this little | | | | the workers with Oliver at his shop, there is no spoken |
| talk of Oliver to himself shows the reader that he has | | | | communication; however through their "envying look" |
| a pre-occupation with his childhood and all the efforts | | | | the reader understands their attitudes to Oliver and his |
| he has gone through in order to save all his money. | | | | indifference to them is revealed as the author says " it |
| Though he never mentions this, his constant | | | | was only with one finger of the amber-colored glove, |
| retrospections show the importance that his childhood | | | | waggling that he acknowledged their presence." This |
| has for him. As an example when Oliver is in his room | | | | unspoken interaction between them is to a large |
| just before the entrance of the Duchess, he starts | | | | extent expressive of their attitude towards each |
| thinking of his boyhood passed in misery and hard | | | | other.As mentioned earlier, this unspoken |
| times. This shows how Virginia Woolf cunningly, | | | | communication between the reader and the text takes |
| without explicit mentioning of Oliver's pre-occupation | | | | place among the characters of the story as well. The |
| with his childhood, interacts with the reader through the | | | | very first silent communication among the characters |
| character's retrospections and gives the reader the | | | | occurs when Oliver as a youngster is passing through |
| chance to get involved with the text. Therefore the | | | | a group of jewelers discussing the price of gold and |
| mind of Oliver and also his general history is disclosed | | | | "one of them would lay a finger to the side of his nose |
| to the reader through the least number of spoken | | | | and murmur, 'hum-m-m,' as he passed. |