“Mrs. Dalloway tells the story of different people of London society. It jumps from the perspectives of many characters ranging from an upper-calls woman, to that of a World War I veteran facing mental stress, and then to a corrupt doctor. Mrs. Dalloway’s free flowing structure is a reflection upon one of the novel’s main messages which is that life is a journey and that death is something that we all experience. The characters of Mrs. Dalloway contemplate what death will be like for they realize it is an inevitability and that the time is growing near for some of them. You can not stop the journey of life at any point for your mind is constantly at work. This is represented by the books lack of divides or chapters. The book allows us to experience many different characters and takes us on a journey to the past and the present. This represents our own lives. Each of us interacts with other people and we each think about the past. This shows another one of the books messages which is the similarity between the experiences that people go through in life so we have a greater connection to those around us than we actually know. I would recommend this book because the alternating perspectives keeps things interesting.”
CALLEN C wrote this review Monday, October 26 2009.
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