Lappin and Lapinova – Virginia Woolf
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The story at a glance
- "Lappin and Lapinova" by Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), first drafted around 1919 and published in 1939; later collected in×A Haunted House and Other Short Stories×(1944).
- Told by a third-person narrator, it follows the first years of the marriage of Rosalind and Ernest Thorburn.
- Rosalind invents a private fantasy: Ernest is King Lappin, a rabbit (×lapin×is French for rabbit), and she is Queen Lapinova, a hare. The game keeps their marriage alive.
- When Ernest stops playing, Lapinova "dies" — and "So that was the end of that marriage."
- Key ideas: imagination and escape, marriage and identity, class and family, male indifference, the fragility of love.
Beginning the game
- Newly married, Rosalind still cannot get used to being Mrs Ernest Thorburn — "Ernest" is a difficult name for her — a hint of unease.
- One morning she notices his nose twitches like a rabbit's: he looks less like "Ernest" than like a rabbit.
- She names him King Lappin; he joins in, calling her Lapinova, a hare — wild, small and elusive.
- They build a whole private world of imaginary woods and creatures, which only they share.
- Through the first months the fantasy gives them intimacy and gives Rosalind a sense of self.
The golden wedding
- Rosalind, an only child and an orphan, dreads the fiftieth wedding anniversary (the golden wedding) of Ernest's parents; Ernest comes from a large, wealthy family.
- The Thorburns fill a grand drawing-room of satin wallpaper and gleaming family portraits; the gifts are solid gold, hall-marked — Rosalind's modest present seems out of place.
- The living Thorburns look like their portraits and trade cruel schoolroom jokes (pulling away the governess's chair).
- At dinner a guest remarks of rabbits, "They breed so", and a cousin shouts that they should be shot and jumped on "with big boots" — the family's view of wild creatures.
- Rosalind catches Ernest's eye; his nose twitches — Lappin is there — and she escapes into fantasy, seeing the Thorburns as creatures (Celia, the unmarried sister, as a white ferret; old Mr Thorburn as a poacher).
The end of the game
- Over time Ernest grows impatient with the game; the fantasy fades.
- One night Rosalind wakes in panic: "I thought my rabbit was dead!" Ernest: "Don't talk such rubbish, Rosalind… Lie down and go to sleep." He is soon snoring.
- The next day she is restless, as if she has lost something.
- When Ernest comes home she tells him Lapinova is gone. He straightens his tie at the looking-glass: "Yes… Poor Lapinova…", "Caught in a trap… killed" — and sits down to read the newspaper.
- Final line: "So that was the end of that marriage."
Methods
- Fairy-tale / fable elements: a king and queen, animals, an enchanted kingdom — set against the dull realities of a gentry family.
- Symbolism: the rabbit (Ernest, domesticated, breeding, hunted), the hare (Rosalind, wild, solitary, vulnerable), the trap (marriage and convention), gold (the family's wealth and solidity).
- Free indirect style: we slip into Rosalind's thoughts and fantasies.
- Contrast: the vivid private world vs the stiff, loud Thorburn world.
- Abrupt ending: one flat sentence ends the marriage — shocking and ambiguous.
- Section B pairings: "A Story of a Wedding Tour" (a woman trapped in marriage), "The Nightingale and the Rose" (fantasy vs indifference), "Indian Summer of an Uncle" (marriage and class).
Themes and interpretations
- Imagination as survival: the fantasy gives Rosalind an identity against Ernest's powerful family.
- Marriage and identity: she struggles to become "Mrs Ernest Thorburn"; losing Lapinova is losing herself.
- Male indifference and control: Ernest's practical, impatient masculinity finally "kills" the game.
- Class: the solid-gold, hunting Thorburns vs the orphaned, dreamy outsider.
- Readers debate: is the fantasy what held the marriage together, or what hid its emptiness? Is Rosalind escaping, or trapped?
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1.Who wrote 'Lappin and Lapinova'?
Easy- AVirginia Woolf
- BKatherine Mansfield
- CMargaret Oliphant
- DJane Austen
2.Who are the married couple in the story?
Easy- AJaney and Mr Rosendale
- BKatie and Geoffrey
- CRegina and Horace
- DRosalind and Ernest Thorburn
3.What animal does Rosalind think Ernest resembles?
Easy- AA hare
- BA ferret
- CA rabbit
- DA fox
4.What does 'lapin' mean in French?
Easy- ALove
- BRabbit
- CKing
- DHare
5.What animal is Lapinova?
Medium- AA hare
- BA rabbit
- CA ferret
- DA bird
6.What does the fantasy give the couple?
Medium- AMoney
- BFame
- CA new house
- DA private world of intimacy that only they share
7.What occasion does Rosalind dread?
Medium- AA funeral
- BChristmas
- CThe golden wedding of Ernest's parents
- DHer own wedding
8.How are the Thorburns' anniversary gifts described?
Medium- AFlowers
- BSolid gold, hall-marked
- CHomemade
- DBooks
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