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The degree to which readers feel Woolf's narrative control mirrors an actual system of connections in the real world finally depends on the degree to which they appreciate her mystical sense that life is fundamentally interconnected.

Is there a shared impulse to something greater than self that does not destroy self?

Although many readers associate Woolf with the exploration of fine subjective emotions, we shall see that the novel has important things to say about insanity, psychiatry, politics, the monarchy, war, suicide, and homosexuality, as well as about what it feels like to sit in a park in London on a spring day.