"Her only gift was
knowing people
almost by instinct
"She felt young;
at the same time
unspeakably
aged
"She sliced like
a knife through
everything"
Peter: "cold,
heartless, a
prude"
"waves of that
divine vitality
which Clarissa
loved. To dance,
to ride, she had
adored all that"
Peter
"his whole life had been a failure"
"he could be intolerable, he
could be impossible; but
adorable to walk with
"with Peter everything had to
be shared, everything gone
into"
Nota:
By marrying Richard she could have independence
Hugh
Peter "had never to
this day forgiven her
for liking him"
"the admirable Hugh!"
"Richard was nearly
driven mad by him"
Clarissa "always felt a
little skimpy beside
Hugh; schoolgirlish
Flowers
"delphiniums, sweet
peas, bunches of lilac;
and carnations, masses
of carnations"
English cottage flowers
Innocence
Different people
of London
Representation
of character
Nota:
Clarissa is comfortable with flowers, unlike Lady Bruton or Richard
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"First a warning, musical;
then the hour, irrevocable.
The leaden circles
dissolved in the air"
"to kindle and
illuminate; to
give her party"
"This late age of world's
experience had bred in
them all, all men and
women, a well of tears"
"Mrs Dalloway said she would
buy the flowers herself"
"What a lark!
What a plunge!"
"out, out, far out to sea and
alone; she always had the
feeling that it was very, very
dangerous to live even on
day"
"did it matter that she
must inevitably cease
completely; all this must
go on without her... did it
not become consoling...
here, there, she survived"
"Fear no more the heat
o' the sun / nor the
furious winter's rages"
Oh if she could
have had her life
over again!"
"Religious ecstasy
made people callous"
"Oh! a pistol
shot in the
street outside"
"the most dejected of
miseries sitting on
doorsteps... can't be
dealt with, she felt
positive, by Acts of
Parliament for that very
reason; they love life"
Malcolm Hebron on Clarissa
Nota:
"her mind is collecting these images of life to cover up something darker underneath, her own fear of mortality and social disintegration"
"the sea represents something ageless and primeval, in contrast to modern man, living by the chimes of Big Ben and intent on social sophistication"