5/21/2023 0 Comments Mrs dalloway by virginia woolfThe final effect is an intimate relationship between the reader and the people who brush past Clarissa Dalloway as she organizes and prepares for her party. However, rather than focus on the thoughts of a single character, Woolf’s novel flows across several minds as the day progresses. Dalloway is told as a stream-of-consciousness narrative (i.e interior monologue). In the style made popular by modernist authors like James Joyce and William Faulkner in the early to mid-twentieth century, Mrs. As the day progresses, Clarissa and her expanded social circle muse about the nature of life, death, society. The story revolves around a party thrown by Clarissa and takes place over the course of a single day. As such, the plot takes a back seat to the structure in Virginia’s Woolf’s tale of the aging socialite, Clarissa Dalloway. Doubtless, it is a feat of high modernism, displaying a trademark love of interior exploration and experimental language. On another, it’s a love triangle, but long after the drama has concluded, and when all that’s left is dust. On one level, it’s a psychological portrait of London’s residents after the first World War.
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