Mrs Dalloway: Section 2

By oceanlost

Jumping between all these different characters’ heads was kind of interesting, but I’m still not totally sure how I feel about it. Also, London is everywhere in this book—there are so many place descriptions that it sometimes feels like a lot, but I guess it does help you really picture the time and setting. The whole gossip thing about who’s in that car was pretty funny/chaotic to me, especially everyone trying to figure out if someone important or even royal is inside. And the plane stuff—people staring at the smoke and trying to guess what it’s spelling—made me wonder if it’s meant to be more symbolic than just random attention. Like… maybe it’s not really about toffee, but that’s the vibe. Then you get Septimus and Lucrezia, and Septimus seems really down, worrying that other people can tell. I don’t know if I “get” his headspace exactly, but it felt very real. Lucrezia also has her own suffering, but she feels stuck and can’t really talk about it, which I can understand a bit. So yeah, I’ve got a bunch of questions, but mostly I’m curious what everyone thinks the narrative is doing with all the shifting viewpoints and the London details.