Mabel remembers how happy and comfortable she felt at the dressmaker’s, as Miss Milan pinned her hem, asked her about the length, and tended her pet canary. This image vanishes quickly, however, as she is catapulted back to the present, “suffering tortures, woken wide awake to reality.” She berates herself for caring what others think of her, but drifts into thoughts about her own “odious, weak, vacillating character.”
Mabel thinks about her unremarkable family and upbringing, her dreams of romance in far-away lands, and the reality of her marriage to a man with “a safe, permanent underlings job.” She thinks about isolated moments in her life—characterized as “delicious” and “divine”—when she feels happy and fulfilled, connected with all of the earth and everything in it, “on the crest of a wave.” She wonders if those moments will come to her less and less often, and determines to pursue personal transformation through “some wonderful, helpful, astonishing book” or an inspirational public speaker. She gets up to leave the party, assuring Mrs. Dalloway that she has enjoyed herself.
Mabel remembers how happy and comfortable she felt at the dressmaker’s, as Miss Milan pinned her hem, asked her about the length, and tended her pet canary. This image vanishes quickly, however, as she is catapulted back to the present, “suffering tortures, woken wide awake to reality.” She berates herself for caring what others think of her, but drifts into thoughts about her own “odious, weak, vacillating character.”Mabel thinks about her unremarkable family and upbringing, her dreams of romance in far-away lands, and the reality of her marriage to a man with “a safe, permanent underlings job.” She thinks about isolated moments in her life—characterized as “delicious” and “divine”—when she feels happy and fulfilled, connected with all of the earth and everything in it, “on the crest of a wave.” She wonders if those moments will come to her less and less often, and determines to pursue personal transformation through “some wonderful, helpful, astonishing book” or an inspirational public speaker. She gets up to leave the party, assuring Mrs. Dalloway that she has enjoyed herself.
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