Mrs. Dalloway: Body and Room as Box of Flowers and Health

Title: Mrs. Dalloway: Body and Room as Box of Flowers and Health
Category: Literature / English | Words: 3415 | Pages: 14.5 (approximately 235 words/page)

Mrs. Dalloway: Body and Room as Box of Flowers and Health

Somewhere within the narrative of Mrs. Dalloway, there seems to lie what could be understood as a restatement - or, perhaps, a working out of - the essentially simple, key theme or motif found in Woolf's famous feminist essay A Room of One's Own. Mrs. Dalloway does in fact possess "a room of her own - " and enjoys an income (or the use of an income) that is at least "five hundred a year - " (Room: 164). But most importantly, …showed first 75 words of 3415 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 3415 total…and is manifest also as the enriching "box of flowers" idea. Woolf hints at a psychological androgynous alchemy that might be achievable via literal marriage (as in the case of Clarissa's marriage to Richard), or a purely imagined or "negative" marriage (as with Peter), and works out a model of negotiated psychological health as an antidote and remedy to the bad doctoring portrayed in her book, and that must have been typical of her time.

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