Mrs. Dalloway Blog Post #1

 

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 park and comes across Septimus and his wife Lucrezia. The couple gets into an argument while Peter is walking by. Peter views the couple as young love quarreling with each other. I think it is very interesting that Virginia Woolf tells the story of two very different people from different lifestyles and has them connect even if it is just for a split second

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