A review by mmefish
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

challenging reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

"She wanted support. Not that she was weak; but she wanted support."

"So she made him think. (But he was not in love.)"

I appreciated it, I liked it at times, but I didn't love it (except the parts including Septimus; simply superb).

"They went to Hampton Court on top of a bus, and they were perfectly happy. All the little red and yellow flowers were out on the grass, like floating lamps he said, and talked and chattered and laughed, making up stories. Suddenly he said, 'Now we will kill ourselves,' when they were standing by the river[...]"

"It might be possible, Septimus thought, looking at England from the train window, as they left Newhaven; it might be possible that the world itself is without meaning."
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