What are the reader’s first impressions of the Woman in Black?

?What are the proof contributors first impressions of the muliebrity in downcast? The first description of the Woman in Black raises a lot of questions for the reader to think ab by. The fact that she is described as universe Dressed in deepest blackthat had rather gone out of fashion suggests that the woman is out of place in the time blockage as well as at a funeral. This tie in to how the other(a) funeral attendants can non see her. The fact that she is a woman and described as being refined in black cogitate to the title of this novel which gets the reader wondering if she is the Woman in Black.Secondly, her cloths are described as a little rusty flavor. This gives the impression that her clothes are agedness which links with her isolation from the rest of the funeral party as she isnt dressed in the most up to date formal funeral wear. She is also tell to have a terrible wasting disease and the thinnest layer of grade was tautly stretched and strained across her bon es. Also Arthur says she had a blue-white glimmer on her flake. All three quotes suggest a religious guessing character. This links to other ghostly descriptions of the woman including Eyes seemed sunken cover song into her head.The quote thinnest layer of fleshacross her bones links to the quote a victim of starvation because if someone has been starved and so you can see the shape of their bones. However, to create contrast, Arthur Kipps shows sympathy for the woman when he says some lingering hint, of a not inconsiderable former ravisher and I bent my head and prayed for the soul of that lonely old woman. Her flake is described as being extremely pale, even more than than a contrast with the blackness of her garments could account for.This shows that the contrast between the colour of her skin and her dress is completely different linking her to the theme of contrast in the novel. doubly in this section of the story, Arthur notes the movement of the woman when he hears some push aside sound behind (him) and the same again later on with a slight rustle of clothing. The use of small sounds to show her movement creates hesitation as the reader doesnt know if she is real or not because she is making a sound when she moves but the description of a ghostly figure contradicts that.The quote on hearing some slight rustle behind me then links to having acuteness of the senses and the theme of sounds in both(prenominal) Edgar Allan Poe novels. When the funeral congregation moves outside, Arthur describes where the woman stands. She stands some yards back, beside another key fruit transcend with moss. This makes the reader question why the woman is looking at another cay and not looking at the actual burial. The fact that the headstone is overgrown with moss suggests that it is an old headstone but it would be hard to tell how old.This links to Arthur finding it hard to tell how old the woman is. Could it be her headstone? Finally, when we first meet any of the other characters in The Woman in Black we are given a short description of how they look and dress, however, the Woman in Black has a considerably longer and more detailed description meaning that this character and this meeting obviously had a bigger impact on Arthur than any other character as he can quite easily recall and retell every detail of the funeral of Mrs. Drablow.