This scene takes place in Katherine Hilbery's house. This takes place when neither Ralph nor Katharine were sure how they felt about each other. In this excerpt, we clearly see that Ralph is lost in thought mainly because of the different feelings he has for Katharine. He cannot tell the difference between reality and what he believes to be reality. Therefore, by doing a deep analysis of what is going on in Ralph's head, Virginia Woolf, being the omniscient narrator, shows us the turmoil and loss that Katharine Hilbery has created in Denham's mind. To express her ideas, she uses multiple stylistic features which help to add a certain coherence to the themes she wishes to highlight. Subsequently, two themes can be identified in this extract which are the inability to distinguish the real from the intangible and Ralph's unconscious infatuation with Katharine. First, from the second to the third line, Virginia Woolf describes the first symptoms that show Denham's inability to separate reality. of the imagination. “His eyes were bright…he hardly knew whether they were seeing dreams or reality.” This personification of the eyes, as if only the eyes are the observers of reality and dreams and not of humans, shows Ralph the confusion about the world in which he lives. It seems like he's stuck on the border of two different dimensions. where the realities of each of them mix to create the absurdity he saw at that moment. His imagination and his world being the same entity in his head, he could neither think nor act at this precise moment. We can also detect a lexical field of hallucination with the words "dreams", "ghost", "unreal" and "depth of mind" which reinforce the idea that...... middle of paper .... ..page 150 “he…thought her more beautiful and stranger than his dream of her” and line 7 “she overflowed the edges of the dream; he noticed that its softness was like that of a vast snowy owl.” This succession of laudatory comparisons towards Katharine proves that his fascination with her knows no bounds. Virginia Woolf thus shows here the evolution of Ralph's feelings towards Katharine, from contempt to infatuation and perhaps ultimately to love. So after analyzing this text, we can first deduce that Ralph Denham is a very difficult character to define as he represents complexity in himself with his mixed emotions. The author may have presented it this way to maintain a sort of mysterious atmosphere in the book. What is certain now is that he has somewhat developed a sort of infatuation with Katharine and the romance between these two can certainly end in their favor..