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Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf (excerpt)
Traffic accumulated. And there the motor car stood, with drawn blinds, and upon them a curious pattern like a tree, Septimus
thought and this gradual drawing together of everything to one centre before his eyes, as if some horror had come almost to
the surface and was about to burst into flames, terrifled him. The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into
flames. It is I who am blocking the way, he thought. Was he not being looked at and pointed at: was he not weighted there,
rooted to the pavement for a purpose? But for what purpose?
This excerpt from Mrs. Dalloway reveals the state of mind of Septimus Warren Smith, a war veteran with a
outlook
on the world. The last two sentences also illustrate
which is a common characteristic of
modernist literature,
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