Saturday, December 22, 2018


“Mrs. Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf (post 10): Since the story is about a traumatized person who commits suicide, is the novel a suicide note?

The author’s introduction to the novel, quoted in the previous post, says an earlier version had Mrs. Dalloway as the one who commits suicide, but that, eventually, Mrs. Dalloway’s “double,” Septimus, assumed that role.

In other words, this novel was conceived as the story of a traumatized person, who, years later, commits suicide.

And since Virginia Woolf was a traumatized person (sexual abuse in childhood), who, years later, committed suicide, is this novel a suicide note?

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