Virginia Woolf creates interesting contrast within the character of Clarissa
Dalloway using stream of mind narration in her novel Mrs. Dalloway.
Clarissas inner thoughts reveal a contrast between her lack of appeal to
her husband because of her lesbian feelings and her anxiety about loosing him as a social
stepping stone. These clashes and many others can be seen throughout the new
using the literary device of stream of consciousness fréquentation. Clarissas
persona reveals to us early in the book her lack of interest to her partner.
This revelation can be seen in the passage that states: through some
contraction of this cold spirit, the girl had failed himshe could see what she
lackedit was anything central which in turn permeated. The cold nature
that she talks of is her sexuality, in being drawn to women, and her lack of
understanding for what reason she is in this way. This is the main reason for her not enough
attraction. She gets that this lady has let him straight down because your woman cannot complete her
duties as his wife. Clarissa had dropped both a sexual romantic relationship and sex
attraction with her hubby since the birth of her teen daughter Elizabeth:
she could hardly dispel a virginity maintained through childbirth which clung
to her such as a sheet. Clarissa tells us of her true sexuality as she recalls
her girlhood friend Sally Seton. Sally is the just person that Clarissa has ever
had virtually any real keen feelings intended for. But this kind of question of affection, this falling
in love with women. Take Sally Seton, her relation in the old days with Sally
Seton. Had not that, after all, been appreciate? Although Sally held her heart, her
homosexual emotions were not socially acceptable. Clarissa is therefore obliged
to enter into a marital life to Rich Dalloway for social purposes. A distinction to
Clarissas lack of fascination to her partner is seen in her anxiety about loosing
him. Richard offers her a stepping rock for her to be the socialite that
she strives to be. When Richard is definitely invited to a lunch with Lady Bruton, a twinge
of fear is obvious in Clarissa that she actually is loosing her husband: Fear no more
the warmth o direct sunlight, for the shock of Lady Bruton asking Richard to lunch break
without her made as soon as which the girl had stood shiver. With no him, the lady
would be nothing in society, so Clarissa is scared of loosing him even though
she has no appeal towards him. A compare in the much deeper self of
Clarissa Dalloway can be seen in the stream of consciousness liaison in Mrs.
Dalloway. She reveals her lack of attraction for her partner and her fear of
losing him through her interior thoughts. This provides for us the ability to see
the weaknesses of Clarissa and lots of of the other characters.
