She is said to have " kept a feeler on her surroundings lest someone should creep up, and suddenly she would find her picture looked at " (Woolf 13). ... Lily's painting does for the novel what her final brush stroke does for her painting: it unites otherwise isolated fragments. ... I believe the vision-inducing final detail represents the notion that everything in life revolves around change. ...

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