The New Dress | Style

Stream of Consciousness
Woolf’s short story ‘‘The New Dress’’ is related through a stream-of-consciousness narrative in which the thoughts and feelings of Mabel Waring are central to the narrative. In fact, Woolf is commonly regarded, together with Edouard Dujardin and James Joyce, as one of the creators and early practitioners of stream-of-consciousness narrative. The focus is more on character than plot; actually, the plot is revealed as the reader learns about the protagonist. The story emerges from Mabel’s thoughts as she perfunctorily addresses the other...

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