Dalloway Critics

Question 1

Bennett (1926)

Answer 1

Woolf “told us ten thousand things about Mrs. Dalloway, but did not show us Mrs. Dalloway,”

Question 2

Western Mail @ time of

Answer 2

‘somewhat bewildering jumble’

Question 3

Virginia Woolf 1929 in a room of one’s own

Answer 3

‘it is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly’

Question 4

A.D Moody (1960)

Answer 4

‘Clarissa is a shallow representative of her elitist social class.’

Question 5

Jensen (1980’s)

Answer 5

'’Septimus’s leap into death and Clarissa’s into the life she has chosen’’ are ‘‘both suicidal’’

Question 6

Abel 1992

Answer 6

‘The narrow bed is implicitly linked with a grave, so her sexuality is associated with death

Question 7

Kincer (2008)

Answer 7

‘Clarissa is slave to societies rules

Question 8

Robbins (2011)

Answer 8

‘A novel that resists closure’

Question 9

Lauren Barr (2013)

Answer 9

‘she wants individuality (…) fearing she would lose it to Peter Walsh, she opts to marry a socially acceptable member of the ruling class, only to be subsumed as her husband’s wife’

Question 10

Lauren Barr (2013)

Answer 10

‘These words sound almost weapon like, and it is true that her hard exterior and iciness have inflicted pain - on Peter ‘