Choices - Fiction
Woolf - Mrs Dalloway
 | Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf "Mrs. Dalloway" follows Clarissa Dalloway through her day, as she prepares for her party that evening in a stream of consciousness style narrative. Using the interior perspective of the novel, Woolf moves back and forth in time and in and out of the various characters' minds to construct a complete image, not of just Clarissa's life, but of inter-war social structure. Her goal was to move steadily away from traditional forms of fiction, to come "closer to life," to capture the moments of life. Mrs Dalloway is possibly Woolf's most well-known novel, and her working title “The Hours” was used by Michael Cunningham for his 1998 novel and subsequently Stephen Daldry's film of the same name. |
