Mrs Dalloway Critics:
Paul Bailey (Novelist) - "At her most interesting Clarissa is a snobbish,
vain, repressed lesbian who has dabbled in a culture, but for the greater
part of the novel she is only a shadow, poetically enshrined."
Karen de Meester - (communication) "Septimus's death is the
result of his inability to communicate his experiences to others
and thereby give those experiences meaning and purpose."
Gary Carey - (communication) "Sally sparked Clarissa's spirit. Clarissa felt
that she and Sally could communicate".
James Naremore - (isolation) "The world of Mrs Dalloway [...] is
one where individuals live in relative isolation"
James Naremore - (Identity) "The moment in front of the mirror plays on
the ambiguity of 'herself' and 'her self' suggesting the constructed and
partial nature of the self she must create that night, and pimples that the
peremptory call on Mrs Dalloway to create that self does not allow for
individual liberty."
Jeremy Tambling – “Woolf's stress on veiled homosexuality
suggests that what is repressed could either be a source of
warmth, if released, or destructive, if not."
Anna Benjamin – time: “The constant chiming of Big Ben [...]
seems to speak to one side of this division, while the
interweaving of present and past through personal memory
seems to speak to the other"
Anna Benjamin - "Mrs Dalloway represents the conflict, not
between person and person, but between duration and false
time"
Toril Moi – Woolf: “A champion of both socialism and feminism"
Tori Moi – patriarchy: “Sir William and Lady Bradshaw... are the
'symbolic portrait' or the patriarchy"
Ali Meyers - positive changing society: Doris Kilman sees a positive
changing modern society that will accept the young girl for who she is,
and having wealth doesn't hurt either.
Ali Meyers – “Mrs. Kilman was trying to find a meaning to life,
simply as a distraction for her own fight to survive.”
Elizabeth Abel – “Septimus is another victim of the patriarchy”
Paul Bailey (Novelist) - "At her most interesting Clarissa is a snobbish,
vain, repressed lesbian who has dabbled in a culture, but for the greater
part of the novel she is only a shadow, poetically enshrined."
Karen de Meester - (communication) "Septimus's death is the
result of his inability to communicate his experiences to others
and thereby give those experiences meaning and purpose."
Gary Carey - (communication) "Sally sparked Clarissa's spirit. Clarissa felt
that she and Sally could communicate".
James Naremore - (isolation) "The world of Mrs Dalloway [...] is
one where individuals live in relative isolation"
James Naremore - (Identity) "The moment in front of the mirror plays on
the ambiguity of 'herself' and 'her self' suggesting the constructed and
partial nature of the self she must create that night, and pimples that the
peremptory call on Mrs Dalloway to create that self does not allow for
individual liberty."
Jeremy Tambling – “Woolf's stress on veiled homosexuality
suggests that what is repressed could either be a source of
warmth, if released, or destructive, if not."
Anna Benjamin – time: “The constant chiming of Big Ben [...]
seems to speak to one side of this division, while the
interweaving of present and past through personal memory
seems to speak to the other"
Anna Benjamin - "Mrs Dalloway represents the conflict, not
between person and person, but between duration and false
time"
Toril Moi – Woolf: “A champion of both socialism and feminism"
Tori Moi – patriarchy: “Sir William and Lady Bradshaw... are the
'symbolic portrait' or the patriarchy"
Ali Meyers - positive changing society: Doris Kilman sees a positive
changing modern society that will accept the young girl for who she is,
and having wealth doesn't hurt either.
Ali Meyers – “Mrs. Kilman was trying to find a meaning to life,
simply as a distraction for her own fight to survive.”
Elizabeth Abel – “Septimus is another victim of the patriarchy”
