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Miss Trefusis And The Voyage Out
Imagine leaving everything behind to start a new life. Meeting new people, trying new things, and adjusting to your new place. Experiencing a new life is like a journey. Learning new things you have never heard or thought you will ever do. Dahl meets Miss Trefusis and Major Griffiths which both are very weird. So weird you would have never thought about it.
I can infer that Dahl meets a woman named Miss Trefusis on his travel and he knows her as weird and afraid. According to the text, Miss Trefusis is afraid of fingers and toes. Miss Trefusis never uses her fingers. It states in paragraph 42 and 64 of The Voyage Out "She was eating an orange at the time and I noticed suddenly that she was not eating it in the normal way". Miss Trefusis peels
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