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The Silent Communication in "The Duchess and the Jeweler" by Virginia Woolf

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




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