Virginia Woolf’s use of time in Mrs. Dalloway

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T. Vasantha Prabha, P. Thiyagarajan

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Mrs. Dalloway is the first of Virginia Woolf’s successful, mature, experimental novels. It uses impressionistic techniques and interior monologues to reveal her characters’ personalities, Mrs. Dalloway, Peter Walsh, and Septimus Smith. In Mrs. Dalloway the events take place within a single day. This uncommon strategy displays the novel’s complication of time in general. For example, while human beings tend to assume of time in terms of the steady ticking of the clock - seconds, minutes, hours, and days - Mrs. Dalloway tells how people can relive, through memory, whole years inside the space of minutes.

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