A review by hqloruby
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

4.0

4.5⭐️
“What is this terror? What is this ecstasy? What is it that fills me with extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.”

Holy. Shit. I didn’t have to read this for English but based off of the few excerpts we received, I want to formally thank my literature professor for having me discover this wonder classic and making me interested enough to pick it up at half-price.

Split into multiple perspectives, it all centers around Clarissa, a wife of a governor throwing a party that evening. This book is set in a day and it doesn’t even feel like so.

I have to write an analysis essay on this book and before having read it, I choose to write on Septimus and the contrast between him and Clarissa, however if I had the chance to change my argument, I would’ve have chosen the relationship dynamic between Peter Walsh and Clarrisa Dalloway because by far, their dynamic is what kept me hooked throughout the entire classic.