A poignant portrayal of the thoughts and events that comprise one day in a woman's life
Influenced by Joyce's ULYSSES, Virginia Woolf's novel takes place within a 24-hour period and includes a walk around London that resembles Leopold Bloom's walk around Dublin. With MRS. DALLOWAY, Woolf turned the novel-of-manners into a work of profound psychological insights. Woolf's narrative is structured out of the internal thoughts of characters Septimus Smith, a young man and former soldier who has been traumatized by World War I, and Clarissa Dalloway, the apparently perfect hostess. Their thoughts reveal a truth of a broken society beneath the facade of smoothly mannered English mores.
- Genre: Fiction + Literature Themes, Fiction + Literature Genres
- Subgenre: Types of Characters, Conflicts + Dualities, Literary, Psychology, Peoples + Cultures, Literary Genres + Types of Novels, Human Qualities + Behavior, General, Politics, Settings, War + Military, Love + Relationships + Sex, Humorous Fiction, Legal + Courtroom + Crime
- Publisher: Mariner Books
- Pages: 194
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: September 1, 1990
- Date Published: September 1, 1990
- Author: Virginia Woolf