The Importance of Time in Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway".

Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway is a modernist novel, which shows new techniques to express a different point of view with regard to the notion of time. It is not without importance to note that the novel has no chapter headings. Nevertheless it is immediately obvious that the interest of the novel is not only in the form but also in the content. The action takes place in a single day of June in 1923 and what …showed first 75 words of 4037 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4037 total…to be valued by living and appreciating the present moment. That is what Clarissa wants to show with her party. And Woolf with the story of a single day: she wants to demonstrate the beauty and the greatness of life considered in its simpler actions. Bibliography Primary Source Woolf, Virginia. Mrs Dalloway. London: Penguin Classics, 2000 Secondary Sources Ruotolo, Lucio. "Mrs Dalloway: The Unguarded Moment". Virginia Woolf REVALUATION AND CONTINUITY. Ed. University of California Press. London: 1980.