Mrs. Dalloway 5

“But this question of love, this falling in love with women. Take Sally Seton; her relation in the old days with Sally Seton. Had not that, after all, been love (32)”?

Sexuality was a controversial topic at the time the book was written. Woolf could possibly be making a statement in her writing by making the character of Mrs. Dalloway be a homosexual. In the story, it is such a casual and usual seeming thing to Mrs. Dalloway and doesn’t seem to be a problem at all. This may be Virginia Woolf’s view on the topic. She doesn’t push it onto the reader at all, but does mention it in other parts of the book as well, describing Septimus’s friend, Evans, as "undemonstrative in the company of women", and often making Septimus seem as if he was in love with Evans. Homosexuality is a definite theme throughout the book.