Concetti Chiave
- The novel is set in London on a single day in June 1923, capturing the fluidity of life without a traditional plot.
- The story begins with Clarissa Dalloway buying flowers for her evening party and concludes with the event itself.
- Characters are interconnected through their relationships with Clarissa, brought together at her party.
- The narrative unfolds through the thoughts, feelings, and memories of various characters, using flashbacks and present actions.
- Clarissa's outing to buy flowers triggers reflections on time, life, and her innate love for living.
Mrs Dalloway
The novel is set in London, on a mid-June day (a Wednesday) in 1923. There is no real plot, but simply a mosaic of reminiscences , considerations about past and present situations , impressions , a sort of plunge into the continuous fluidity of life, measured by the striking of the hours (the original title was, in fact, The Hours).
It opens at 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning with Clarissa Dalloway (51, married with a daughter) , Bond Street buying flowers for the party she is giving in the evening, and ends with the party itself.
It is through all these people's minds that the action effectively develops, through their thoughts, their feelings and recollections, presented no longer in linear progression, but in an alternation of flashbacks and present actions.
At the beginning of the novel we only know that Mrs Dalloway is going out to buy flowers for the house, where she is giving a party after same weeks of bad influenza. We know something about her external appearance only through the impressions of a neighbor. But a simple event puts her mental activity in motion, revealing her hidden ideas about time , about life and her instinctive love of life.
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