Mrs. Dalloway (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
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 and the countryside
- Principal Characters: Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway, Septimus Warren Smith, Peter Walsh, Richard Dalloway, Elizabeth Dalloway, Miss Kilman, Lucrezia (Rezia) Smith, Sally Seton
- 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
Form and Content
Mrs. Dalloway follows the title character on a typical day, as she plans a party, shops, meets old friends, and makes her grand entrance at the party, all the while rethinking her life, her choices, her problems with identity, her sense of self, and the conflicting demands of love. Like Irish writer James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922), this is a “stream-of-consciousness” novel, but the book really illustrates Virginia Woolf’s notion of the webs of humanity, love, hate, and even apathy that connect all people. The book also clearly focuses on the...
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