A review by sandaru
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

challenging reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I really want to read more of Woolf's works. It's so rich in interesting writing style, even though it is tough to understand. This is my second time reading her works, and this being a short book, it took me more than a month to finish this. Written in a vignette style, it's filled with Woolf's commas and semicolons. Her use of modernist writing features such as interior monologues and distortion of time (this whole story happens from the morning to the night of one day). Still, it includes shifting multiple perspectives, which is also another feature of modernist writing styles. That, too, makes it a bit hard to keep up with the plot. One time you are reading about one character, and in the next, the perspective has already shifted naturally to another character. There are multiple characters in this story regardless of what happens within a day. All these characters would say something about our main character, who is already spoiled in the title of the book. It was a fascinating read.