![]() His conversation implies that he knows of a spiritualist machine which can be used by widows to communicate with their dead husbands who have been killed in the war. The old man is gesturing wildly and talks of the spirits who are communicating with him. He asks his wife, Eleanor, if she thinks of the past, and she tells him she remembers being kissed by an old lady with a wart on her nose, twenty years ago while she and a group of other girls were painting at the side of a lake.Ī young man and an older man walk past the flowerbed next. A husband and wife walk past the flower bed with their children, all of them lost in their own thoughts: the husband, Simon, thinks about a woman he’d asked to marry him fifteen years earlier (but whom he never did marry). As so often with modernist literature, the focus here is on a moment or a series of moments, rather than a grand, unified narrative or plot. In summary, ‘Kew Gardens’ focuses on the titular gardens in London, on a hot July day. ![]()
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