Monday, May 28, 2012

Mrs. Dalloway 3


“’My party tonight! Remember my party tonight’ (48)”!

Woolf uses repetition to emphasize the shallow thoughts and feelings of Mrs. Dalloway and the rest of the upper class society she is a part of. Mrs. Dalloway repeats this one sentence about reminding people to come to her party several times, and each time the character seems to come across a little more desperate. Woolf shows that Mrs. Dalloway’s most important thought is her party. Even as she is having all these life realizations and seeing people she hasn’t seen in so long, she is still obsessed with the thought of not enough people showing up to her party. This shows the superficiality of society. 

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