Virginia Woolf creates interes
Virginia Woolf creates interesVirginia Woolf creates interesting 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
narration.
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 which permeated....� The �cold spirit� that she talks of is her sexuality,
in being attracted to women, and her lack of understanding why she is this way. This is the main reason for her lack of attraction. She feels that she has let him down because she cannot complete her duties as his wife. Clarissa had lost both a sexual relationship and sexual attraction with her husband since the birth of her teenage daughter Elizabeth: �...she could not dispel a virginity preserved through childbirth which 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...
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