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How is the modernist style expounded within Mrs Dalloway?
The modernist style is successfully expounded within this extract as the extract is written in a very
different style to classical literature and by doing this enables the reader to link to with the
characters and helps to show the actual nature of the human mind
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By describing the world from
one character's point of view and then again from a different character's, both of which could be
happening at the same time, it immerses the reader in the world as they can imagine the world from
different perspectives and so gain a fuller understanding of it
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In this
extract it helps to show the reader that a rather surprising mood of depressed cynicism is not as odd
as it seems, considering as the characters are all preparing to go to a party, as it is a mood many
unrelated characters have and so must have some cause
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This starts when Walsh is “standing by [a] pillar-box”
and then ends again when he is “by the pillar-box”
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This rather odd way of showing thoughts is actually very effective as the
sudden veering away from one idea, the physical action of the street, to another idea mimics the
way in which people think
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The syntax defies the norm and seems to have no consistency, much like
the mind
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This is shown in its most extreme form in the passage
focused on Henderson
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” This sentence is extremely long, containing twenty one different clauses
and seems to the reader to go on and on forever and by the time the sentence finishes the topic has
changed completely
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In this way it represents the nature of thoughts and how
they are nebulous things with no clear boundary between each idea
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This extreme details, many of which seem to be utterly
irrelevant, shows how the mind often fixates itself on a very small detail and then flits to another
detail, often only connected by the most tenuous link
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This effect is very successful as it mimics the way in which someone in a
crowded place will notice one or two details about there surroundings but might miss some obvious
larger more important details
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This is very effective at showing the confusing nature of
reality as it shows that two different people experiencing the same situations will experience them
in different ways
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The
despairing nature of the human mind is shown very aptly by using a soliloquy to describe a

characters thoughts, the contradictory nature of these thoughts shows the complex nature of human
character
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The power of the
memories and thoughts is shown by how they do not just leave him thinking about despair, but
actually feeling the crushing, inhospitality of the world
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The implications of his despair being triggered by an ambulance is that the character has
realised his mortality and is despairing at the futility of life, and the cruel nature of memory as it can
let people relive great moments but more normally just lets them wallow in the idea of what could
have been
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The omniscient
description helps to show the nature of thought as it enables this to be shown indirectly by showing
to the reader what the characters are thinking
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The soliloquy also helps to break up
the narrative and warps the readers sense of time
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This is also further
developed by the use of the stream of conscious technique which helps to fragment the reading
experience and so mimics the nature of thoughts
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