false 14942 111 As Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a fine June morning, a sky-writing plane captures her attention. Crowds stare upwards to decipher the message while the plane turns and loops, leaving off one letter, picking up another. Like the airplane's swooping path, Virginia Woolf's <I>Mrs. Dalloway</I> follows Clarissa and those whose lives brush hers--from Peter Walsh, whom she spurned years ago, to her daughter Elizabeth, the girl's angry teacher, Doris Kilman, and war-shocked Septimus Warren Smith, who is sinking into madness.<p> As Mrs. Dalloway prepares for the party she is giving that evening, a series of events intrudes on her composure. Her husband is invited, without her, to lunch with Lady Bruton (who, Clarissa notes anxiously, gives the most amusing luncheons). Meanwhile, Peter Walsh appears, recently from India, to criticize and confide in her. His sudden arrival evokes memories of a distant past, the choices she made then, and her wistful friendship with Sally Seton.<p> Woolf then explores the relationships between women and men, and between women, as Clarissa muses, "It was something central which permeated; something warm which broke up surfaces and rippled the cold contact of man and woman, or of women together.... Her relation in the old days with Sally Seton. Had not that, after all, been love?" While Clarissa is transported to past afternoons with Sally, and as she sits mending her green dress, Warren Smith catapults desperately into his delusions. Although his troubles form a tangent to Clarissa's web, they undeniably touch it, and the strands connecting all these characters draw tighter as evening deepens. As she immerses us in each inner life, Virginia Woolf offers exquisite, painful images of the past bleeding into the present, of desire overwhelmed by society's demands. <I>--Joannie Kervran Stangeland</I> 841320 1925 Mrs. Dalloway total:14976|5:162|4:210|3:183|2:67|1:39| 14976 56895 20341 1047 4 20 true false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sat Sep 29 20:25:38 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 29 21:02:43 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 8 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jul 26 11:42:36 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 15 14:55:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 8 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 24 18:25:51 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 08 22:52:37 -0800 2007 - I'd tried once and gotten about 3/4 of the way through, but never finished
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Mrs. Dalloway is a story of one woman in a single day of her life. The novel opens with the first sentence - "Mrs. Dalloway said she shall buy the flowers herself." - Shows, so much of brightness, so much of hope, so much o...more...]]> 3 2 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 20 13:05:08 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 27 12:07:53 -0700 2007 Mrs. Dalloway delves into the souls of several 1920s Londoners - each of varying socioeconomic backgrounds - in the course of one day. With Big Ben marking the time, the narrator follows Mrs. Dalloway as she p...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 05:47:03 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 12:08:26 -0700 2009 en route for a spot of landscape gardening an...more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat Jan 12 23:09:44 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 11:33:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Thu Sep 11 12:57:54 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 28 10:15:54 -0700 2008
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