August 9, 2024 -
Aaron Morey
If I had to summarize what Mrs. Dalloway is “about”, in a very brief form, I would say that it’s concerned with the way every person’s rough edges rub against each other and hurt the people around them. And that Clarissa, by her kindness,
July 30, 2024 -
Aaron Morey
Lovely, I’m not sure how else to describe it. Proustian without the interminable scenes of awful people blathering on. Woolf (at least here, I haven’t read anything else by her) is gentle and empathetic. Each viewpoint character, as strange or dam
July 5, 2024 -
Aaron Morey
As he walks through London, Peter Walsh finds himself “standing under Gordon’s statue, Gordon whom as a boy he had worshipped; Gordon standing lonely with one leg raised and his arms crossed,—poor Gordon, he thought.” As an American who doe