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Virginia Woolf Creates Interes

ting contrast within the character of Clarissa Dalloway using stream of consciousness narration in her novel Mrs. Dalloway. Clarissa’s inner thoughts reveal a contrast between her lack of attraction to her husband due to her lesbian feelings and her fear of loosing him as a social stepping stone. These contrasts and many others can be seen throughout the novel using the literary device of stream of consciousness
Clarissa’s character reveals to us early in the book her lack of attraction to her husband. This revelation can be seen in the passage that states: “...through some contraction of this cold spirit, she had failed him...she could see what she lacked...it was something central ...

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clung to her like a
sheet.”
Clarissa tells us of her true sexuality as she remembers her girlhood friend Sally Seton. Sally is the only person that Clarissa has ever had any real passionate feelings for. “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?” Although Sally held her heart, her homosexual feelings were not socially acceptable. Clarissa is therefore
obliged to enter into a marriage to Richard Dalloway for social purposes.
A contrast to Clarissa’s lack of attraction to her husband is seen in her fear of loosing him. Richard provides for her a stepping stone for her to be the socialite that she strives to be. When Richard is invited to a lunch with Lady Bruton, a twinge of fear is evident in Clarissa that she is loosing her husband: “Fear no more the heat o’ the sun; for the shock of Lady Bruton asking Richard to lunch without her made the moment which she ...

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Added: 1/12/2005 03:05:20 AM
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