Virginia Woolf’s novel, Mrs. Dalloway, allows an intrusive view into a day in the life of an upper-class woman in twentieth century London. While London was, during this time, known for its beauty and elegance, it was also known as being an extremely class-oriented and traditional place. During this time, women were expected to be graceful accessories to their husbands, and often spent the majority of their lives receiving training in order to meet this expectation. In saying this a woman with a different mindset would be viewed as being unfit for marriage or as being a lesser woman. Virginia Woolf struggled with the repression of her bisexuality in a society that viewed topics of desire—including that of female sexuality—as lewd and vastly
