Natalie Ciejek's Blog

  I think the book Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf is very interesting. I have never read a book from this point of view before. The entirety of this story takes place in one day. I have seen movies that happen all day, like Dazed and Confused (1993) or The Breakfast Club (1985). But I have never read a story where it is told all in one day. Not only is the storyline taking place in one day but there are two different people this book tends to focus on. We have Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class, fifty-year-old woman who is running errands throughout the day preparing for a party she will be hosting later in the evening. The other person is Septimus Smith, a World War I veteran, still experiencing PTSD from trench warfare. He suffers from shell shock.  Despite there being two different storylines later on in the book the storylines intermingle with each other. Clarissa's ex-suitor Peter Walsh pays her an unexpected visit. After his visit with Clarissa Peter is walking in a p...

  The love triangle between Edward, Flora & Rose reminds me of every love triangle I have read about in books or watched in movies & tv shows. Their trope is defined as the boy who is going after Flora who thinks he is in love with but he doesn't see the other girl Rose who is right next to him and is in love with Waverly. In a way, this reminds me of the love triangle in the 1986 John Hughes film Some Kind of Wonderful.  This film is about a boy named Keith who is an outcast and not so popular, who goes out with his dream girl Amanda, who is the most popular girl in the school. He thinks he is in love with her and is destined to be with her. Keith's girl best friend Watts encourages him to go out with Amanda but little does he know that Watts is in love with him. Keith is Edward, Amanda is Flora, and Rose is Watts. At the end of the film, Keith realizes Amanda is not who he thought she was and wants to be with Watts instead so they get together and start a relationshi...