"Mrs Dalloway" by Woolf

This book was published in 1925. And this is her first great myth or her greatest claim to immorality. This novel shows how remarkably the novelist has succeeded in adopting the stream-of-consciousness technique. The reach is limited temporarily to a single day in life of its chief character, Mrs. Dalloway, with a hardly a(prenominal) other people. As the heroine shops or talks, dresses or eats, we be within her mind, seeing her as she sees herself, sharing her memories and grappleing the people she knows or has known through her own eyes.

In the novel the major characters are only five and they stand out from the rest with a distinctive pre-eminence. It is they alone who reveal their thoughts to the reader in protract and repeated interior monologues as well as in conversation. And we find these five major characters moving round from each one other in two concentric circles, Clarissa, Peter Walsh and Richard Dalloway in the one Septimus and Rezia Warren Smith in the other. And then just about of these two circles we find a ring of minor characters such as, Sally Seton, Lady Bruton , Hugh Whitbread, Elizabeth Dalloway and the important foil to Clarissa, Doris Kilman.

The entire action takes places in one day. It moves between Mrs.



Dalloways preparation for her party in the morning and her presiding over it in the evening on the alike(p) day. Within this narrow frame we are also to know her life from girlhood to her present age of fifty. The story is stepwise unfolded by means of the contacts she makes with others.

The whole of the novel, Mrs. Dalloway, conveys poignantly Virginia Woolf s response to succeeder in reflecting how, in a big city, peoples path vex and dramas go on within range of dramas, and yet in spite...

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