Cliffs Notes on Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway

by Gary K. Carey

A seemingly routine day is taken apart moment by moment and thought by thought, revealing an influence on Ms. Woolf by Freud and James Joyce. As a society woman makes her way through her day, events, people, and memories intrude, and the web of life that holds this one woman reveals the depths of existence.

74 pages, Paperback

First published December 26, 2003

Reviews

[Liz · Rating 4 out of 5]

The four stars is because this book helped clarify the intent of the novel. Still don't like the novel.

[Isabella · Rating 2 out of 5]

For being a (very) short informative analysis of Mrs Dalloway, the pompous writing was irritating and at times even downright pretentious. I also personally disagreed with some of the analysis described, but wholly agree with one well-described observation: "Woolf offers us the human personality in its most disciplined sanity and in its most chaotic insanity."

[Carol · Rating 5 out of 5]

Helped me to understand the book.