Quotation: “People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms” (Woolf 219).
Comment: This is a very interesting piece of “advice” to leave someone. Throughout the piece there is a focus on the reflection that the looking glass has on both Isabella and her room. It is said that things within the view of the looking glass are considered immortal and removed of life. There is also a notion that Isabella has poor mental health. If we draw these two together, it could bring the idea that the looking glass is the cause of her mental health. If it causes the room to be a place of thoughts that Isabella cannot escape because they are considered to be in the trance of immortality. If Isabella did not leave the looking glass in the reflection of her rom, then maybe she would not be trapped inside her mind.
Question: What does the looking glass symbolize? Is it the cause of Isabellas troubles? Are looking glasses a source of bad fortune?
