Clarissa Dalloway

Clarissa is the main hero and the protagonist of the book. It is not a surprise for you as the book is named after her name. She is always in the center of all actions. The author of the text made a very hard job to make the hero a complex one. It means that she doesn’t have only good sides, which will be really strange and dull.

Because really, in the text, even though she feels the oppression of society, she is still very much a part of the very world she critiques. This is a classic case of pot and kettle.

What do we know about her? She is a very accurate and delicate woman of 50 years old. She is analyzed in a book in terms of her life, personality and of course after her influence on the other characters of the book. She can be discussed from many angles. Clarissa enjoys the moment-to-moment aspect of life and believes that a piece of her remains in every place she has visited. She lacks a certain warmth but is a caring woman who is touched by the people around her and their connection to life in general. Also, she truly thinks that the parties she always makes are the gift from God.

She is a representative of an uppity English elite class and yet, defies categorization because of her humanity and her relation to her literary double, Septimus Warren Smith. She is superficially based on Woolf's childhood friend, Kitty Maxse.

Clarissa Dalloway wants to find the balance in her life; it is meant that she wants to be great not only because of her parties, which is external but inside too. Her world and life consist of glittering rooms, wealth, parties and conversations with high society. But at the same time, she wants to make it exist in deeper meaning. She wants to mean something.