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A 2 page comparison between Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping. The writer concentrates on the similarities between the authors' use of point of view. No additional sources cited.
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century novelists to employ the "stream of consciousness" narrative view pioneered by James Joyce. Robinson writes in this tradition, picturing the story through the consciousness of Ruth and her relationship
with her family and the town of Fingerbone. In both novels, the point of view works on two levels, showing the present, but also connecting the protagonist to the past.
Although Woolf will occasionally picture the action of the novel through the perspective of any one of a large assembly of characters, she introduces Clarissa Dalloway via extended interior
monologue and largely stays with Clarissa Dalloways mind as the principal point of view. It is through her mind that the reader perceives the sights and sounds of London. The
reader learns of her preoccupation with society, her fears and daydreams, and-mostly importantly-her memories. A great deal of the significant action of the novel takes place in the past via
Dalloways memories. Woolf also utilizes what might be considered to be the protagonists alter ego-Septimus Warren Smith, who is in symbolic terms, the heroines double. They never meet,
but they are definitely joined in time. Woolf demonstrates the mutability of reality via point of view by first showing the action via Dalloways or Smiths point of view, letting
the reader know the heroines thoughts, and then switching to the perspective of another character and showing reality from that angle. In a similar manner, Ruth disappears over a
bridge, enacting her semiotic escape from the tradition-bound world of Fingerbone, which wants to keep her safely tucked indoors. However, it is as if she disappears in order to tell
her story, as it is her voice that speaks throughout the double levels of the narrative which seek to find reality through levels of "plain truth" and a restored past,
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