What Happens According To Mrs Dalloway

This revelation comes happens during her own party, because of it: “For Mrs. Dalloway, it is a day when she finds her reason for going on living and continuing her chosen path even though she has had only the rarest moments of illumination…” (Benjamin, 222) Arguably this illumination occurs because of the party, including the events working up to it. Most of Benjamin’s piece looks at time and its use and effect upon the characters, what should be noted is this day that has over 30 years of experience thrown into it, is due to the dinner party. Clarissa works her way to the revelation, through her own gift of dinner parties she moves through her relationships and memories, she creates and because of this finds meaning. Tying it to Mrs. …show more content…
“Other approaches to the life-art relationship in Woolf s writing may be understood as conscious correctives to the impersonalizing and "disembodied" tendencies of modern.” (Koppen, 376) As seen in the earlier quote, when at the party Clarissa loses herself and does not recognize those around her while at the party. This goes into the point being made that Woolf experiments with the body and creation especially in a gendered form as women’s bodies and this case even minds are not given the same respect or free will. Which is why the party matters so much to Clarissa and Mrs. Ramsay, both of them worry over the party like they are children, not about how their public image will be if it is a failure but because they have put so much into the parties. “She did think it mattered, her party, and it made her feel quite sick to know that was all going wrong, all falling flat.” (Woolf, 168) The dinner parties are an exploration into women’s creation, through a physicality of bringing conversation and guests together and an emotional creation of atmosphere. To be a hostess is to be an artist, bringing all of the separate elements together so that life is itself