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Mrs. Dalloway | The Question of Plot in Virginia Woolf's Novel
In this essay, the author examines the question of plot in Virginia Woolf's novel.
Mrs. Dalloway is a work of literature that can be classified as narrative fiction. That is, it tells a story, or a narrative, that is fictional, or made-up. Novels and short stories are narrative fictions usually structured by a plot. But Mrs. Dalloway is a novel without a plot. This essay examines what this means and why the author might have chosen to eschew this typical narrative convention.
In Aspects of the Novel, Woolf's contemporary, E. M. Forster, explains the difference between story and plot in the following way:
A plot [like a...
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