Stream of Consciousness Technique in Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Pages:107-108
Manisha (Department of English, G.B.D. College, Rohtak, Haryana)

Mrs. Dalloway is a literary work by Virginia Woolf published in 1923. The story takes place in a single day; this is her fourth novel wherein she takes more cognizance upon use of her thought, feeling and sensation through her characters. Stream of consciousness is used right from the beginning through the use of time from the past to the present till the near future, this time is a psychological time that deals with the internal and the external subjectivity of each character’s thought and emotions in order to represent the flow of consciousness also that is interrupted by the clock. Woolf says: