Comparison Within Clarissa Dalloway

Virginia Woolf creates interesting secernate within the character of Clarissa Dalloway using stream of consciousness register in her novel Mrs. Dalloway. Clarissas versed thoughts reveal a contrast between her neglect of attraction to her husband due to her lesbian feelings and her fear of loosing him as a social stepping stone. These contrasts and many others can be cyphern throughout the novel using the literary device of stream of consciousness narration. Clarissas character reveals to us early in the book her overlook of attraction to her usband.This revelation can be seen in the passage that states through some contraction of this cold spirit, she had failed himshe could see what she overlookedit was something central which permeated. The cold spirit that she talks of is her sexuality, in being attracted to women, and her lack of understanding why she is this way. This is the main reason for her lack of attraction. She feels that she has let him brush up because she ca nnot complete her duties as his wife.Clarissa had lost both a sexual descent and exual attraction with her husband since the birth of her teenage daughter Elizabeth she could not dot a virginity preserved through childbirth which clung to her like a sheet. Clarissa tells us of her true sexuality as she remembers her girlhood friend crevice Seton. Sally is the only person that Clarissa has ever had any real passionate feelings for. moreover this question of roll in the hay, this falling in love with women. Take Sally Seton her resemblance in the old days with Sally Seton. Had not that, after all, been love Although Sally held er heart, her homosexual feelings were not socially acceptable.Clarissa is therefore compel to enter into a marriage to Richard Dalloway for social purposes. A contrast to Clarissas lack of attraction to her husband is seen in her fear of loosing him. Richard provides for her a stepping stone for her to be the socialite that she strives to be. When Richard is invited to a lunch with Lady Bruton, a twinge of fear is homely in Clarissa that she is loosing her husband Fear no more the heat o the sun for he shock of Lady Bruton asking Richard to lunch without her do the moment which she had stood shiver.Without him, she would be nothing in society, so Clarissa is panicked of loosing him even though she has no attraction towards him. A contrast in the deeper self of Clarissa Dalloway can be seen in the stream of consciousness narration in Mrs. Dalloway. She reveals her lack of attraction for her husband and her fear of loosing him through her inner thoughts. This provides for us the ability to see the weaknesses of Clarissa and many of the other characters.