I really enjoy Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf for many reasons; it is truly about the most ordinary thing you could ever make up. How simple to base a book just off of a dinner party and the events and thoughts that would lead up to it! The detail that she provides to the reader makes you visual what you are reading. The colors and details almost can make you hear the sounds she describes so well you can taste it! Although the beginning started off a little slow for me I believe the aeroplane in this section plays an important part in the story. One of my favorite quote would be on page 9 , “..part of people she had never met; being laid out like a mist between the people she knew best, who lifted her on their branches as she had seen the trees lift the mist, but it spread ever so far, her life, herself”. The imagery we get here of this tree shows us her connection that she has with people at her dinner party she keeps thinking about. Trees also represent a type of rootedness with oneself and family. The imagery I have been noticing in the waves are something to defiantly keep track of. I will have to have my good friend Watson help me out with this one and see what the significance of having so much imagery and description describing waves and beaches. Keeping a close eye on why everyone is so startled by the aeroplane is very important. It shows the effect that war has one everyone including the people who do not necessarily have everyday contact. This is how Woolf get’s the nearly impossible to connect in ways other authors can not. Woolf is quite a clever one, I would say! Just brilliant!

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