Everyone, and No One, Is the Main Character
At first, I viewed the narrative as another sort of stream-of-consciousness, like The Mezzanine . However, I quickly realized this was not the case and got really confused, really fast. Virginia Woolf’s innovative writing style in Mrs. Dalloway provides the reader with an incredibly enriched experience and brings the characters to life in greater fullness. We are given a bigger, more cohesive picture that can be more confusing but is simultaneously truer to the complex human experience and intricate relationships between real souls. When I was younger, I loved watching a show called “Just Add Magic” that centers around people cooking magic food. One episode I remember, they made “Mind Peering Peppermints,” which allowed them to read people’s minds at any given moment. The episode memorably featured one scene in a cafe where the protagonists people-watched with enhanced abilities, the camera panning from stranger to stranger, eavesdropping on their inner thoughts and playing new v...