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Who are we to Question Love:
A Look into Love through the Eyes of Clarissa Dalloway and Peter Walsh
Throughout Mrs. Dalloway, Clarissa Dalloway's and Peter Walsh's notions of love differ considerably. The choices made and the insecurities possessed by these characters mold their views of love. Clarissa's concept of love is shaped by desire for society's approval; her insecurities redirect the natural course of her love. Peter's philosophy of love is more child-like than Clarissa's desire to please. Peter is less interested in love to please society, but more concerned with love to satisfy himself. Although their views of love stand in opposition, they are both trapped by their love.
Though masked by her synthetic smiles and the false images she projects, Clarissa Dalloway remains a very self-conscious woman. Clarissa first displays this lack of self-confidence when she converses with Hugh Whitbread in the park and becomes "oddly conscious at the same time of her hat.......

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