COMPLETE ANALYSIS: MRS. DALLOWAY, VIRGINIA WOOLF

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COMPLETE ANALYSIS: MRS. DALLOWAY, VIRGINIA WOOLF

(1925) EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Mrs. Dalloway themes Time

Answer:

passage of time, decay, death; old friends bring back memories of the past Question 2: Characteristics of modernist (short) fiction: Story

Answer:

uneventfulness, banality => devaluation of plot in favour of discourse

Question 3: Who is this? Maid in the Dalloway house.

Answer:

Lucy

Question 4: How was Septimus like before the war?

Answer:

Before the war, Septimus was a budding young poet and lover of Shakespeare; when the war broke out, he enlisted immediately for romantic patriotic reasons. He became numb to the horrors of war and its

aftermath: when his friend Evans died, he felt little sadness.

Question 5: Richard Dalloway has been to lunch just with _____ and feels like ______----

Answer:

Lady Bruton. Richard has realized during this lunch that he wants to come home and tell Clarissa that he loves her. Unfortunately, he never finds the words, as he has gone so many years without saying them.

Question 6: Who is Septimus?

Answer:

Septimus was a successful, intelligent, literary young man before World War I. After losing a friend (Evans) he never regains an emotional attachment to the world. He marries Lucrezia trying to move on.Question 7: Where is the couple in part 1 section 2? Septimus and Lucrezia, what are they doing?

Answer:

They are waiting in Regent's Park for Septimus's appointment with Sir William Bradshaw, a celebrated psychiatrist.Question 8: Who is this? Clarissa's first close friend they kissed back in the day

Answer:

Sally Seton

Question 9: Clarissa as a character

Answer:

She is fascinating in that she realizes that her "self" changes, that it modifies to a certain degree, depending on whom she is with. Unlike Clarissa, most people think that they are always the same, regardless of whom they are with.

Question 10: Who is this? Young Italian wife of Septimus.

Answer:

Lucrezia Warren Smith

Question 11: First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable.

Answer:

Narrator, This phrase is repeated throughout the book. Once hours are gone, no one can get them back. The phrase describes how time unites the characters.

Question 12: Who is this? Husband of Clarissa Dalloway

Answer:

Richard Dalloway Question 13: specialist, Sir William Bradshaw reaction to Septimus who dismisses the complexity of Septimus's madness and suggests a rest in an asylum to get more perspective.Septimus and Evans relationship

Answer:

Septimus lost his good friend and commanding officer Evans in the war and continues to carry on conversations with this lost friend.

Question 14: Dark soul? Who?

Answer:

Clarissa uses dark to describe her soul, she does not mean dark to connote something necessarily evil or fearful; dark simply means that the soul is not open for public view.

Question 15: Temporal setting

Answer:

It was June and World War I was over, 1923

Question 16: Who hears the loud car?

Answer:

Clarissa and at the same time the couple. Very different reactions and thoughts.

Question 17: Mrs. Dalloway takes place over what span of time?

Answer:

One day

Question 18: Often considered Clarissa's doppelganger

Answer:

Septimus Warren Smith

Question 19: Part 1, section one focuses on

Answer:

Clarissa Dalloway buying flowers for the evening party, then going home and finding Peter who still has not gotten over the refused marriage proposal.

Question 20: How does Septimus die?

Answer:

Septimus and Lecrezia go to their apartment to wait for the attendants who will take him to the asylum.When they arrive, Septimus decides to escape from them, and not wanting to leave life but not wanting to meet the attendants, he jumps out the window to his death.Question 21: Characteristics of modernist (short) fiction: Discourse

Answer:

opacity, ambiguity, inaccessibility, symbolism, intertextuality, focus on discourse, figural narrative situation, internal perspective, stream of consciousness, interior monologue

Question 22: Clarissa and Sally

Answer:

Clarissa has returned home and begins to remember a special friendship she shared in her youth with Sally Seton, a vivacious, slightly scandalous young woman. The two shared a special bond, bordering on a crush, and Clarissa remembers a kiss they shared.

Question 23: Action opening the novel

Answer:

Clarissa Dalloway decided to buy the flowers for her party that evening. It was June and World War I was over. She loved life.Question 24: Who is this? A delicate lady of fifty; the wife of Richard Dalloway.

Answer:

Clarissa Dalloway

Question 25: As far as plot is concerned

Answer:

, Mrs. Dalloway on this particular day in June prepares for and gives a party. That is all that happens.Question 26: What annoys Clarissa about Peter and why is she sure that she war right in refusing his marriage proposal?

Answer:

And Peter would have insisted on sharing an intimacy with Clarissa. Marrying Peter would have cost Clarissa all private thoughts and feelings. Peter would have demanded that Clarissa release all her