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I could relate so well to Mrs. Dalloway and the other characters. There is beauty in seeing people from their inner thoughts as opposed to how they outwardly present themselves. We are all much more complicated than our words can express, unless we're gifted writers like Virginia Woolf.
Mrs. Dalloway is in her early 50's and has been ill. The story takes place on a single spring day in her life, as she's getting out for the first time in a while. This one day gives the depth of a lifetime in her ...more
Mrs. Dalloway is in her early 50's and has been ill. The story takes place on a single spring day in her life, as she's getting out for the first time in a while. This one day gives the depth of a lifetime in her ...more
Sort of brilliant; sort of poetic; sort of intriguing (with lots of semi-colons and parentheses).
A little slow, but it is all centered around developing multiple characters within the context of their thoughts and interactions within one day, that culminates in Mrs. Dalloway's party, so it takes some time to layer each individual's thoughts and reminiscence. I loved this book at times (especially Septimus's storyline) but I also intermittently felt distracted, ennui would set in. I think if I re ...more
A little slow, but it is all centered around developing multiple characters within the context of their thoughts and interactions within one day, that culminates in Mrs. Dalloway's party, so it takes some time to layer each individual's thoughts and reminiscence. I loved this book at times (especially Septimus's storyline) but I also intermittently felt distracted, ennui would set in. I think if I re ...more
Ahh, stream of consciousness writing really can get a bit muddled. I have now read two stream-of-consciousness books and am trying to compare the two. I really enjoyed The Sound and the Fury but this one, not so much. Took me longer to read this one.
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This was, I believe, the first sream-of-consciousness book I ever read and it took me a little bit to get into it. I was quite young also. I found it surprisingly compelling. Woolf must have had a unique style of concentration and a way to control of her thought process, otherwise I do not know how she would have been able to write this. There were no computers then.
Supposedly one gets more out of this at midlife, so perhaps I should re-read it one of these days.
Supposedly one gets more out of this at midlife, so perhaps I should re-read it one of these days.
2.5 stars.
The Mrs. Dalloway Reader was a bear of book to start and gain traction with. The third-person stream of consciousness style made it difficult to track plot points and, even worse, to connect to the characters. I realized that "consciousness" was not something these characters (like most humans) are striving for and Woolf lays them all out, naked in their insecurities, neuroticism, judgments, and lies. The payoff comes slowly around midway in the novel as Mrs. Dalloway and others, most who are hi
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