Mrs Verloc gets a room of her own

[alice wellintown]

after mrs V murders mr V, she has the place to herself, as her mother
has moved, her brother has blown himself to bits, and she has now all
the money from the bank, she has also the shop and residence. she is
haunted, however,  by the facts and by her fear of hanging, so she
decides she must jump off a bridge and drown in the river. the pathos
ruptures as she runs into the professor and the irony, Conrad is
master of irony, sets all the gothic and romantic passages in relief,
foregrounding the clever use of prose. Mrs V does get money and a room
of her own, but like Shakespeare~s Sister, and Woolf too, she can not
live as men do. Mrs V hardly knows how to make her way down her own
street. But limited in travel and experience, Dickinson produced poems
that may be set on the mantel next to Whitman.