The Character of Clarissa Dalloway Created by Virginia Woolf Essays

Virginia Woolf creates interesting contrast within the character of Clarissa Dalloway using stream of consciousness narration in her fable Mrs. Dalloway. Clarissas 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 accessible stepping stone. These contrasts and many others can be seen throughout the novel using the literary device of stream of consciousnessnarration.Clarissas 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 which permeated.... The cold spir...