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 seen throughout the novel using the literary device of stream of consciousness
Clarissa's character reveals to us early in the book her lack of attraction to her
husband. This revelation can be seen in the passage that states: "...through some
contraction of this cold spirit, she had fail
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