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Analysis of Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway, published in 1925, is a romantic drama with deep psychological approaching in to the world of urban English society in the summer of 1923, five years after the end of World War I.
The book begins in the morning with the arrangements for a party Clarissa Dalloway will give and it ends late in the evening when the guests are all leaving. There are many flashbacks to tell us the past of each character, but it does not leave the range of those few hours. It presents several stream-of-consciousness devices: indirect interior monologue, time and space montage, flashbacks and psychological free association based mainly on memory, with the support of imagination and the senses (mainly sight).
We can compare the book to a tapestry where there are two strings being weaved together, separated from the narrative:
- Clarissa's party and all day long of arrangements;
- The craziness and finally Septimus' suicide.
To abolish the......

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