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Woolf delivers one of the main points of the novel early on in a beautiful passage that describes the ship as a character, alone but free, as a metaphor for Rachel’s imminent metamorphosis. I am enjoying how each of the characters on the boat seems fully-envisioned, including the Dalloways, who have just stepped aboard. I am aware that the Missus will be followed up on in her own novel of mental dissolution.
— Jun 01, 2026 01:37PM
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Jun 01, 2026 01:40PM
I can’t help but compare this book in my mind to Faulkner’s Mosquitos, though there’s a lot more contrasting going on there. Superficially both novels have an odd cast of characters interacting with each other on a boat. Mosquitos is a farce, though, and while The Voyage Out has amusing observations, I know that there is death in the sea.
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