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“Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting.”
“[…] a ghostly couple.”
The use of an adjective to describe the couple is an indication that the ghost story is not a conventional one. Instead of writing “a couple of ghosts,” which would clearly define the type of character of the story, Virginia Woolf uses the term “ghostly,” which provides the ghost characters with an ethereal, unreal trait.
“But it wasn’t that you woke us.”
The use of “us” in this sentence adds a layer to the point of view of the story. It reflects the ambiguity of the narrative: It is unclear whether the narrator is talking to the reader, as in Quotation 1, or mentally addressing the ghosts.
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By Virginia Woolf