dalloway critics

Question 1

ELAINE SHOWALETER - The third…

Answer 1

…person narrative is able to “have her characters not only see but be seen”

Question 2

ELAINE SHOWALTER - The central woman…

Answer 2

…character is socially defined by her marriage and masked by her marital signature.

Question 3

ELAINE SHOWALTER - Her obsession…

Answer 3

…with flowers and parties masks a much deeper engagement with the conditions of female survival in a patriarchal survival.

Question 4

BARBARA HILL RIGNEY - Sex and love…

Answer 4

…for both Septimus and Clarissa as for Jane Eyre, threaten a violation of the inner self which one must struggle to keep intact.

Question 5

HERMIONE LEE - A woman…

Answer 5

…who has given up passion for security.

Question 6

SUSAN HISLOP - almost all…

Answer 6

…the characters have failed to live up to their youthful dreams.

Question 7

VALENTINE CUNNINGHAM - Septimus Warren…

Answer 7

Smith’s hallucinations and suicidality mirror Woolf’s own times of mental disturbance.

Question 8

SIMON OTILIA - Nothing…

Answer 8

…actually ‘happens’ in this novel.