Dalloway is told as a stream-of-consciousness narrative (i.e interior monologue). In the style made popular by modernist authors like James Joyce and William Faulkner in the early to mid-twentieth century, Mrs. As the day progresses, Clarissa and her expanded social circle muse about the nature of life, death, society. The story revolves around a party thrown by Clarissa and takes place over the course of a single day. As such, the plot takes a back seat to the structure in Virginia’s Woolf’s tale of the aging socialite, Clarissa Dalloway. Doubtless, it is a feat of high modernism, displaying a trademark love of interior exploration and experimental language. On another, it’s a love triangle, but long after the drama has concluded, and when all that’s left is dust. On one level, it’s a psychological portrait of London’s residents after the first World War.
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