Exposition
Clarissa Dalloway’s background information is given through her own thoughts and regrets. She describes how she feels about death and how she is unsure about whether she resents it or not; furthermore about her regretting her past when the time comes. Clarissa Dalloway is never quite she what she wants and if she makes the right decisions. As readers, we see into many lives in Mrs. Dalloway. We get to see how they all connect and why people feel they ways they do.
Complication
Clarissa Dalloway rejects the marriage of Peter Walsh. This is a complication in her life forever. She wonders what life would be like if she accepted the proposal. All the while we see Richard Dalloway at lunch with another woman, Lady Brunton. This is a big deal because it upsets Clarissa Dalloway, it leaves her feeling abandoned.
Crisis
The main emotional crisis, aside from Clarissa Dalloway’s struggles with her own insecurities, …show more content…
Third person omniscient allows this. The narrator also flashes between other people’s thoughts and memories. This really allows the whole picture, without bias, to be shown to the reader. Clarissa Dalloway would most likely leave out things that she is embarrassed of because they would make her look less elegant. However, because she can’t control the story all of her insecurities and embarrassing thoughts are left out in the open. “How much she wanted it- that people should look pleased as she came in, Clarissa thought...annoyed, because it was silly to have other reasons for doing things...half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.” (pg. 10) Clarissa is thinking here that she should do things for herself, not because others would be happy if she would. She could never say this though. It would make her seem less of a
Clarissa Dalloway’s background information is given through her own thoughts and regrets. She describes how she feels about death and how she is unsure about whether she resents it or not; furthermore about her regretting her past when the time comes. Clarissa Dalloway is never quite she what she wants and if she makes the right decisions. As readers, we see into many lives in Mrs. Dalloway. We get to see how they all connect and why people feel they ways they do.
Complication
Clarissa Dalloway rejects the marriage of Peter Walsh. This is a complication in her life forever. She wonders what life would be like if she accepted the proposal. All the while we see Richard Dalloway at lunch with another woman, Lady Brunton. This is a big deal because it upsets Clarissa Dalloway, it leaves her feeling abandoned.
Crisis
The main emotional crisis, aside from Clarissa Dalloway’s struggles with her own insecurities, …show more content…
Third person omniscient allows this. The narrator also flashes between other people’s thoughts and memories. This really allows the whole picture, without bias, to be shown to the reader. Clarissa Dalloway would most likely leave out things that she is embarrassed of because they would make her look less elegant. However, because she can’t control the story all of her insecurities and embarrassing thoughts are left out in the open. “How much she wanted it- that people should look pleased as she came in, Clarissa thought...annoyed, because it was silly to have other reasons for doing things...half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.” (pg. 10) Clarissa is thinking here that she should do things for herself, not because others would be happy if she would. She could never say this though. It would make her seem less of a