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Conflicting Clarissa

In the initial stages of the story, I wasn't quite sure as to how I would get a good grasp of Clarissa Dalloway, since this narrator is so unique. The narrator doesn't remain with Clarissa, and has already established its ability to travel within the deep minds of multiple characters. From what we saw of Clarissa in the beginning, all I could really grasp was her bird-like qualities, and the fact that she had been sick for a while. Yet while reading last night's chapter on her encounter with Peter, it really pulled together a stronger image of her, and I could finally see at how Woolf focuses on her as a person.  On page 40, Peter says, "Here she is mending her dress; mending her dress as usual, he thought; here she's been sitting all the time I've been in India; mending her dress; playing about; going to parties..." The narrator is clearly revealing Peter's true thoughts on Clarissa in that moment. Yet I can't help but disagree with Peter. Clar...