Mrs. Dalloway (edit title)

• Rated 0 stars

“This book was beautifully written in a complex way. It deals with a woman named Clarissa Dalloway, and her thoughts throughout a day in June, in London. The book deals with social class, time, death (war and suicide), the human conscience, etc. It takes place after the first World War. Virginia Woolf, creates characters in the book that are very similar to herself because in her lifetime, she was a woman who had issues with herself due to how she was brought up and has experienced. ”

• Rated 3 stars

“I had to read this book as summer reading. It was very confusing and a little boring, but it was one of those ground breaking books for its time so that made it a little more interesting. I was able to look into the day in the life of a rich upper class woman in 1920's London. It was written to impersonate how the mind works on a daily basis. It jumps around to different perspectives, times and feelings on a dime. The changes are so quick and so subtle that you have to pay very close attention to when it happens, other wise you will be completely be lost. This also made me pay closer attention to this book while I was reading”

• Rated 1 stars

“This book is very complicated and very detailed. The style that virginia Woolf writes in is extremely detailed and meticulous. the plot is an average day of a woman. what the book does, is it switches the point of view of who is telling the story. however, it is all in the same timeline. is begins in the morning, and ends late at night. i didn't like it personally because it deals with death too much. i dislike thinking about the idea and concept of death, and this book forced me too. this book addresses so many issues about life and death that when i finished the book i came out thinking more about the things that i wouldn't normally do. i dont like this because it makes life too complicated than it should be.”

• Rated 3 stars

“Clarissa Dalloway is a very fascinating character and it is interesting to watch how she interacts with the world which has changed so much since her youth. The novel is not only a fascinating character study of Clarissa but also of several of the people who she sees, meets or knows that are introduced throughout the novel since most of the novel is told in streams of consciousness narration . Woolf is able to provide substance to her characters and the plot without it feeling heavy, which is important given the relatively short length of Mrs. Dalloway. ”

• Rated 5 stars

“Beautiful”

• Rated 3 stars

“This book made me a little uncomfortable.”

• Rated 5 stars

“It particularly made me realize that truth is comprised of many, varied perspectives.”

• Rated 4 stars

“Mrs. Dalloway at it's finest”

• Rated 4 stars

“I am rather mixed about Mrs. Dalloway. It is so beautifully written, on the one hand, but it is also very intense.

For Mrs. Dalloway, the most prevalent interactions of the characters are that between Clarissa Dalloway, Richard Dalloway, Elizabeth Dalloway and Mrs. Kilman, Peter Walsh, Sally Seton, Septimus and Reiza. Clarissa, Richard, Peter and Sally all have roots in their love triangle (love square?). Elizabeth takes on a new mother in Mrs. Kilman, which kills Clarissa and struggles Mrs. Kilman. Septimus and Reiza deal with Septimus’ strife from the war; and while he has no direct interactions between the aforementioned characters, Septimus’ suicide manages to climb into Clarissas’ party. “Oh! thought Clarissa, in the middle of my party, here's death” (Pg. 183). Really, there has been death prevailing over the book all along, from the realization of age—to each strike of Big Ben.”

• Rated 2 stars

“I said I'd read it so I did ... but found it very hard going, for the most part. Occasional descriptive passages flowed and communicated the essence of something to me, but by and large I didn't appreciate the style.”