Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway follows a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an upper‑class woman in London in 1923. As she prepares for a party she’s hosting that evening, the novel drifts through her thoughts, memories, and impressions of the world around her.

The story uses stream‑of‑consciousness to explore themes like identity, time, social expectations, and the lingering effects of World War I. You move fluidly between characters’ inner worlds, seeing how their private thoughts contrast with their public lives.

It’s less about plot twists and more about the richness of everyday moments, the complexity of memory, and how people carry their past into the present.