Monday, May 28, 2012

Mrs.Dalloway 4


“…Looking at the flowers, at the trees with the smoke winding off them and the rooks rising, falling; standing and looking until Peter Walsh said, ‘Musing among the vegetables?’ –was that it?- ‘I prefer men to cauliflowers’-was that it (3)?”

Woolf uses stream of consciousness throughout the entire book. Every line is from a characters’ point of view in a jumbled sort of written out thought pattern. This writing style was new to the era and wasn’t often used, but Woolf’s story is often thought to be a response to James Joyce’s Ulysses, which was written in a similar style. 

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