Curnow+and+The+Drifters

The first part of this post is about a young boy we are introduced to in chapter four. The boy Curnow. Nephew to Mrs. Pascoe, the boy Curnow is our eyes. The passage is not particularly peculiar in this respect: Woolf has done her fair share of playing around with points of view to provide a different sort of reading experience. What made this passage stick out to me the most is actually how Woolf referred to the child as the boy Curnow the entire time. The question that continues to resurface in my mind concerns importance. How important is the boy Curnow to the story? Is he simply a catalyst in Woolf's masterpiece, providing the reader only with a set of eyes? But then what is the narrator for? Does she repeat those words, the boy Curnow, to reiterate his boyhood? To make him in particular an important bystander in our minds?

To broaden the topic for my second part, are any of the stories of people such as the boy Curnow (who we only really see once--so far) going to matter? At this point, many names have been tossed about. A few lost in my mind. Is this supposed to happen? Should we allow them to be swept into the oblivion of our minds, or should we hold them there in hopes that they will all come together once we finish the book? And just a sidenote here, what is the boy Curnow's relationship with Mrs. Durrant? 1200520504