Tag: Why does Peter Walsh have an axe to grind with Clarissa Dalloway?


  • 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…