20th Century Lit - Zoey

    Brett is an interesting character for an older book like this one. I wouldn't expect to see a free spirited female character like her whose drinking all the time and seeing other men even while being engaged to someone in a book written almost a hundred years ago. At the same time, many of the characters and their habits defy my expectations of a literary novel, for example their dialogues and the way they're constantly joking and roasting each other. Brett has some pretty unique ways of handling situations, yet I still wouldn't say that the effects of the strange almost-relationship with Jake are her fault.      In class it sounded like a lot of people wanted to call Brett manipulative or selfish. Either that or people thought she was just oblivious to everybody's feelings towards her. However I would say the fault lies on Jake more than her. She explicitly states she isn't interested or can't be in an actual relationship with him, and so the fact he's ...

      Throughout Mrs. Dalloway, we are often carried between the minds of different characters. For example, during the scene where we follow Peter into Regent's Park after he leaves Clarissa's house, we are given a look into how the other characters there see him. Peter watches a child run into Lucrezia's legs, which moves us into her mind. We get to hear about her and Septimus's relationship from her point of view, then quickly move to his thoughts and the fact that he imagines Evans walking towards him - who turns out to actually be Peter . That brings us right back to Peter, and we see him envisioning that the couple he sees before him, Septimus and Lucrezia, is just having a lovers quarrel. These circular transitions between everyone in a particular scene are pretty unique. In the books I've seen which use multiple viewpoints, the shifts are more rigid. Usually after one character finishes a particular thought or a scene is completed, the view completely fl...