Another, reflective reading we are to experience ourselves to! Very similar to Ulysses indeed, but not so repulsive!! I did find myself really captivated by the author of this novel, Virginia Woolf. I found her life rather interesting and engrossing. And I must admit, I’m very fond of learning other people’s lives and business. Call it nosy you may, but I find it insightful to the nature of my surroundings! Anyways, I found a lot of similarities between Woolf and Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway. They both have dealt with an illness. It seems Clarissa’s was more temporary than Woolf’s life-long battle, which eventually she succumbed too. Clarissa also, had two suitors just like Woolf also had between her close friend Lytton Strachey and chosen husband Mr. Leonard Woolf. The main connection I feel towards these two women however, is Clarissa’s affections for Sally, which I feel compare to Woolf’s close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. In Mrs. Dalloway, I feel we are able to get an insight to those feelings Woolf herself had, but never really publicized about her and Vita’s relationship. Though I must say, I feel a bit odd about these powerful feelings a woman has for another woman, and to actually have physical, romantic contact with a kiss! It is very unusual and I’m afraid against my beliefs, I am married to a rector after all! I believe a man should be with a women and vice versa. I find it discomforting to expand my thoughts upon this scandalous issue and behavior. I hope these daring feelings reelected by Clarissa are just those of an adolescent, and not ones that have grown with her into adulthood, though I’m afraid they have. So many similarities between these two, I can’t help but wonder how much of Virginia Woolf’s actual life are truly reflected in this novel by all the hints I seem to catch on. But, no one will ever truly know besides Mrs. Woolf herself who is no longer in our presence. God rest her unsettled soul.

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