Position of volitional form and scope of かな ending


Referring to throwing away old clothes to improve your life:

> この中のいくらかを捨てて、スッキリしてみよう **かな** 。  
>  Maybe I will throw some of them away and try feeling refreshed.

My translation is a bit silly.

1) Does かな act on the whole sentence or just the second clause, i.e does she
wonder if throwing clothes away will make her feel refreshed or does she
wonder about the act of throwing away the clothes too?

2) I don't really understand してみよう here. Presumably this is the volitional
form of してみる (I will try to doing ...). But, you don't normally 'try to feel
refreshed'; it sounds weird.

I'd like to move てみよう to the end of the first clause so that I get "I will try
throwing some of them away, and maybe I'll feel refreshed", but then I don't
think you can add a second clause, because 捨ててみよう can't be turned into て形 can
it? Is that why it all has to move to the end of the second clause?




The question you are asking about is only applicable to the English
translation and the original Japanese sentence is free from that doubt because
the latter has only one predicate that can form a sentence (i.e みよう) while the
former has two of "throw away" and "feel refreshed".

1) You can't interpret it as "she wonder if throwing away clothes makes her
feel refreshed" because してみよう stands for her own will, which is questioned
with か（な）. In other words, if it was 捨ててスッキリするかな, that interpretation would be
possible too.

2) Compared with simple してみる, してみよう is more or less motivating yourself to do
it when it feels reluctant. So, してみようかな sounds a little more uncertain if the
speaker does it.

p.s I find "この中のいくらかを" is a way of thinking that is unique to people whose
language is developed in the field of number.

