Resumo de Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

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Mrs. Dalloway- Virginia Woolf

? For there she was?.?

Virginia Woolf?s Mrs. Dalloway, in the party,
celebrating

life, bringing together people to an ?Ardenic? party,

having conquered her apprehensions, disillusions and

disenchantment with abysmal life. The last sentence of

Woolf?s Mrs. Dalloway is a masterpiece of assertion in
the

face of failure, existence against the feeling of
absurdity

of life. But it is not an uncomplicated celebration. It
is

a celebration which reverberates with death; a
celebration

with an acute understanding of pathos.

Mrs. Dalloway prepares for the party the whole day,
buys

flowers herself, but is all the time aware of the

complications of the life she is going to celebrate in
her

party. Her image of the ?perfect hostess?, seen as a

pretence by Peter Walsh is not as stable as she would
like

to think it to be.

Walking through a park in London, she is a common woman

caught in her past, remembering her Bourton days with
Peter

& Sally, observing an air-plane skywriting, hearing the
Big

Ben?s ?ominous? chimes. At home, she is troubled by

her ?narrow bed?, lack of ?ability? to have more
children

beyond her only daughter, anxious about her drying
female

sexual energies, worried about her daughter and her

relationship with a middle-class teacher- Miss Kilman
and

troubled by the incomplete nature of her life with her
long

time partner/ soul mate paying her a visit reminding
her of

the ?lack? she tries to run from.

All these and perhaps many other reasons make her look

outside the window, feel like throwing herself out, but
the

old woman visible from the window, across the road,
turning

the light off, going to bed- ?continuing to exist?,
stops

her from taking the final ?plunge?.

Septimus Warren Smith had ?killed? himself. She heard
about

this ?anonymous man? in her party amid her
celebrations.

She thought about him, did not pity him though. He had

thrown it away, he had chosen to.

She had walked the terrace at Bourton, thought it was
all

meaningless, difficult when ?your parents give it into
your

hands, this life to be lived..? But she had resisted.
She

had chosen to.

An analysis of Clarissa Dalloway in the party is
intimately

linked to all the events of the day and the ?unrelated

relatedness? of Septimus? experiences and death. It is
a

magnificent feta achieved by Woolf. She portrays the

tension of life , of being, beautifully and with
complete

understanding of the ?inner mind?, aware of all the

complexities and difficulties, she is capable of

celebrating it in Clarissa?s party.

Woolf herself found walking over the ?pavement over an

abyss? difficult, but she makes Clarissa do it and
cross

over.

Thus in the end we have- ?For there she was.?- Woolf?s
Mrs.

Dalloway, inspite of and with, everything difficult and

destabilizing moving on with her life!!

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