Dec 17, 2009

Mrs. Dalloway | Characters

Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is a worldly, fashionable, upper-class wife and perfect hostess who is described by the narrator as possessing a "virginity preserved through childbirth." As Clarissa's day progresses through the details of the party, Woolf explores her many shifting moods and recollections and contrasts them with the views and opinions of many other characters in the story, in addition to the changes in feelings which Clarissa experiences throughout her day. For example, Clarissa keeps mentally returning to a day in June in 1889 when she was eighteen and involved with Peter Walsh;...