Day 4–Mrs. Dalloway

Being in the former house of Virgina Woolf was incredible! After our discussion this morning I felt that I had a much better grasp on the flow of Mrs. Dalloway-I had not considered that it was not stream of consciousness but rather free and direct discourse. From a craft perspective I find that technique extremely interesting because it offers a wide range of persepctive while maintaining the voice of an individual character. I wish we had gone more into Peter because I have a completely different read on his characer after hearing about his potential sexual aggression. I wonder about the failure of his marriage with his first wife coupled with the aggression and the repeated phallic symbol of the knife suggesting impotency. The entire conversation was extremely interesting and I feel like I should go back and reread the novel!

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