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Complete 2 page APA formatted essay: Mrs Dalloway and her parties. The meaning of her parties in the novel: Mrs Dalloway.her old friend of Clarissa is Sally Seaton their relationship, as portrayed in

Complete 2 page APA formatted essay: Mrs Dalloway and her parties. The meaning of her parties in the novel: Mrs Dalloway.

her old friend of Clarissa is Sally Seaton their relationship, as portrayed in the novel is suggestive of a mutual homosexual interest shared between the two. Two questions, which keep pestering the reader throughout the novel, are whether Clarissa Dalloway is happy with her life and could she have been happier with Peter Walsh? The answer to the latter, in my view does not speak in favor of Peter Walsh for reasons that will follow.

It is indeed clear in the novel that Clarissa was never madly in love with Richard Dalloway but rather thought him to be a sensible match for her with his wealth and status in the society (McNichol, 74). The question of Clarissa’s happiness is an interesting one. One could hardly say she is happy with Richard. The frequent reflections of her past which keep reminding her of the moments she would always cherish and her spending the entire day thinking about them does reflect on the fact that even after years of marriage Clarissa is strongly attached to her past. In fact, it appears that Clarissa is more in contact with her past than she is with her daughter – a strange predicament indeed. Consequently, the happiness, which one seeks in one’s life, does not appear to be present in Clarissa’s. The contentment, which one desires after years of marriage and a sense of fulfillment, does not seem to exist in Clarissa’s case. This does not mean, in any way that she has spent an unhappy life with Richard Dalloway but only points towards whether she could have spent a happier life with Peter Walsh.

When Clarissa made the choice of marrying Richard Dalloway and not Peter Walsh, the reasons, which commanded her decision, were deeply routed in the contrast of personalities between Peter Walsh and Clarissa herself. Clarissa wanted the leverage of not being bound to her husband in every respect of her life. On the contrary, as stated in the novel “But with Peter everything had to be shared,” (Woolf, 16). No matter how similar Peter

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