What I Learned from // Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
“It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway[image error], written by Virginia Woolf and published in 1925, is the story of just one day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a high society woman living in London in the 1920s as she prepares to host a party at her home that evening.
We also follow the very troubled Septimus Smith, a World War I veteran who suffers from PTSD, or shell shock as it was referred to back then. He comes back from the war paranoid and hallucinating trying to make sense of the loss of his friend Evans and his current feelings and memories of the war and his place in the world now.
“She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
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