Part one of term paper
ting contrast within the character of Clarissa Dalloway using stream of consciousness narration in her novel Mrs. Dalloway. Clarissa’s inner thoughts reveal a contrast between her lack of attraction to her husband due to her lesbian feelings and her fear of loosing him as a social stepping stone. These contrasts and many others can be see ...

Part two of term paper
... was something central which permeated....” The “cold spirit” that she talks of is her sexuality, in being attracted to women, and her lack of understanding why she is this way. This is the main reason for her lack of attraction. She feels that she has let him down because she cannot complete her duties as his wife. Clarissa had lost both a sexual relationship and sexual attraction with her husband since the birth of her teenage daughter Elizabeth: “...she could not dispel a virginity ...