Before she can answer, Elizabeth (her daughter) interrupts, and Peter heads out to Regent's Park. Feeling desperate over his own unfulfilling life, Peter gets weepy and asks Clarissa if she really loves Richard. Numerous flashbacks – including one of Clarissa's kiss with a girl named Sally – fill in the story as it happened years ago at her family’s country home, Bourton. Peter is clearly still in love with Clarissa, and she feels like he judges her for the decisions she’s made – among them marrying the conservative but loyal Richard Dalloway (instead of him). They’re happy to see each other, but there’s still some tension. When she gets back from her errand, an old friend and former suitor, Peter Walsh, shows up unexpectedly. (Wow, that’s way more than what typically happens to us on the way to get flowers.) Along the way, a few big things go down: she runs into an old friend named Hugh Whitbread, an explosion comes from a diplomatic car on its way to Buckingham Palace, and an "aeroplane" does a little skywriting. It covers one day for Clarissa Dalloway (with some other central characters, too) as she prepares for a big party that will take place that evening.Īs the novel begins, Clarissa strolls through Westminster, her neighborhood in London, on her way to a flower shop. Mrs Dalloway is not your typical day-in-the-life story, but it is a day-in-the-life story – a revolutionary one at that.
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