Mrs Dalloway rejected Doris Kilman because in her opinion, ” ……. but love and religion would destroy that, whatever it was, the privacy of the soul.” (Woolf, p. 116) Clarissa Dalloway loved to keep her boundaries and privacy. Miss Kilman loves to convert people and that, according to Mrs Dalloway, meant not allowing people to…
Peter Walsh has an axe to grind with Clarissa Dalloway, because he can not forgive her for liking Richard Dalloway. However, he can not say it out explicitly, to Clarissa, because Peter “had nothing but the manners and breeding of an English genteman.” (Woolfe, p. 4) This is my copy of Mrs Dalloway: This is…