Part 1

Part 1

Clarissa
1. "A touch of the bird about her
2. "Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct
3. "She felt young; at the same time unspeakably aged
4. "She sliced like a knife through everything"
5. Peter: "cold, heartless, a prude"
6. "waves of that divine vitality which Clarissa loved. To dance, to ride, she had adored all that"
Peter
1. "his whole life had been a failure"
2. "he could be intolerable, he could be impossible; but adorable to walk with
3. "with Peter everything had to be shared, everything gone into"
  Annotations:
  - By marrying Richard she could have independence
Hugh
1. Peter "had never to this day forgiven her for liking him"
2. "the admirable Hugh!"
3. "Richard was nearly driven mad by him"
4. Clarissa "always felt a little skimpy beside Hugh; schoolgirlish
Flowers
1. "delphiniums, sweet peas, bunches of lilac; and carnations, masses of carnations"
  1. English cottage flowers
  2. Innocence
  3. Different people of London
2. Representation of character
  Annotations:
  - 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
Annotations:
- "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"

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