Mrs. Dalloway (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- First Published: 1925
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1920’s
- Setting: London, England
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Memory, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Suicide, Self, 1920’s, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Mental illness, England or English people, Lesbianism or lesbians, Upper classes, London, World War I, Personality, Consciousness, Middle age, Parties, Psychiatry or psychiatrists, Nostalgia
- Locales: London, England
Characters Discussed
Clarissa Dalloway, a woman fifty-two years old and chic, but disconcerted over life and love. A June day in her late middle years is upsetting to Mrs. Dalloway, uncertain as she is about her daughter and her husband’s love, her own feelings for them, and her feelings for her former fiancé, lately returned from India. Years before, Peter Walsh had offered her agony and ecstasy, though not comfort or social standing, and so she had chosen Richard Dalloway. Now, seeing Peter for the first time in many years, her belief in her motives and her peace of mind...
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