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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The analyses of a text #2
The narrator recalls his adolescence.
Agnes is the only daughter of M. Wickfield, a lawyer, who was the master of the narrator's boarding house.
Mrs. Strong is the wife of Doctor Strong, whose school the narrator went to.
The narrator, Mr. Wickfiled, and Agnes is about to leave Doctor Strong's
She[Agnes] was so happy in it herself, however, and the other was so happy too, that they made the evening fly away as if it were but an hour. I closed in an incident which I well remember.They were taking leave of each other, and Agnes was going to embrace her and kiss her, when Mr. Wickfield stepped between them, as if by accident, and drew Agnes quickly away. Then I saw, as though all the intervening time had been cancelled, and I were still standing in the doorway on the night of the departure, the expression of that night in the face of Mrs. Strong, as it confronted his.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know I can replace "closed" with "finished/ ended."
2. I think "I were still standing in the doorway on the night of the departure" is just the antecedent of "it" and I can't figure out it's position and the why it is enclosed by a pair of commas.
So I was wondering the underlined full clause I can rephrase as the following:
"I were still standing in the doorway on the night of the departure as it confronted his the expression of that night in the face of Mrs. Strong."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Agnes is the only daughter of M. Wickfield, a lawyer, who was the master of the narrator's boarding house.
Mrs. Strong is the wife of Doctor Strong, whose school the narrator went to.
The narrator, Mr. Wickfiled, and Agnes is about to leave Doctor Strong's
She[Agnes] was so happy in it herself, however, and the other was so happy too, that they made the evening fly away as if it were but an hour. I closed in an incident which I well remember.They were taking leave of each other, and Agnes was going to embrace her and kiss her, when Mr. Wickfield stepped between them, as if by accident, and drew Agnes quickly away. Then I saw, as though all the intervening time had been cancelled, and I were still standing in the doorway on the night of the departure, the expression of that night in the face of Mrs. Strong, as it confronted his.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know I can replace "closed" with "finished/ ended."
2. I think "I were still standing in the doorway on the night of the departure" is just the antecedent of "it" and I can't figure out it's position and the why it is enclosed by a pair of commas.
So I was wondering the underlined full clause I can rephrase as the following:
"I were still standing in the doorway on the night of the departure as it confronted his the expression of that night in the face of Mrs. Strong."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
1. It should be " It closed", not "I closed". Yes to your question.
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- It should be " It closed", not "I closed".
- Yes to your question.
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- "it" refers to "the face of Mrs Strong".
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1. It should be "It closed", not "I closed". Yes to your question.
2. "it" refers to "the face of Mrs Strong". "his" means "his face". Does that resolve it?
2. "it" refers to "the face of Mrs Strong". "his" means "his face". Does that resolve it?
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Thnk you, GPY, for your so very helpful answer. 
But I don't figure out yet the role of the noun phrase "the expression of that
But I don't figure out yet the role of the noun phrase "the expression of that
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park sang joonBut I don't figure out yet the role of the noun phrase "the expression of that night in the face of Mrs. Strong."Then I saw ... the expression of that night in the face of Mrs. Strong.
I think it means that he saw the same expression again on Mrs Strong's face as he had seen before on "that night", i.e. the night of the departure
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Thank you, GPY, for your continuing support.
Yes, I think A
Does that make sense within the story?
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