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The novel opens with a glimpse of Virginia Woolf in the last hours of her life (though Woolf, as a character, remains very much alive throughout the book). Her struggle with depression and the process of writing Mrs. Dalloway provide the thematic underpinning of The Hours. As with Woolf's novel, the real time of the novel con- with a shaved head who finds Clar- feminist professor, an adamant dyke issa as unacceptable as Miss Kilman finds Clarissa Dalloway. ham's observations about our lives, The closing paragraphs of The Hours are absolutely stunning. Cunning- cerns Clarissa Vaughn's preparations for a party that night. Her close voiced through Clarissa, are sorrowful and sustaining and wise. Like Joyce's "The Dead," everything in The Hours leads up to a culminating para- friend Richard has been awarded a prestigious poetry prize, but he is also dying ofAIDS. It is Richard who, pointing to Woolf, calls Clarissa Mrs. D., or Mrs. Dalloway, and the story of his long friendship with Clarissa Vaughn mirrors Sally and Peter Walsh's relationships with Clarissa Dalloway. The third story belongs to Laura Brown. Mrs. Brown is an intro- graph that is a small and perfectly tuned meditation on the
The Missouri Review – University of Missouri
Published: Oct 5, 1999
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