Mrs. Dalloway's Conflict
When I first started reading Mrs. Dalloway, I was apprehensive about what was to come. While I appreciated the insights from Mr. Mitchell and other classmates on The Mezzanine and I had come to respect the novel for what it was, I personally just couldn't get over the fact that I found the book a mind-numbingly boring slog. Fearing that Mrs. Dalloway would be similar to The Mezzanine because of the way it tracks a character's internal monologue, I didn't even want to start it and procrastinated doing the first reading until 4th hour before class. Now, 47 pages into the book, I find it hard to put down. I thought for a while about why this was the case for Mrs. Dalloway and not The Mezzanine and I concluded that the biggest reason for my interest in Mrs. Dalloway was the inner conflicts that Clarissa Dalloway has, specifically the one relating to her relationships. Even from reading less than 50 pages into the book, it is apparent that Clarissa Dalloway is a ...