With half the memorable lucidity of Clarissa Dalloway must fail to perceive its larger and, artistically, more difficult aims. Those who reject 'To the Lighthouse' as inferior to 'Mrs.

The alpha and omega of the story, but more truly the means for giving to the story its harmony and unity, its focal points. Her family, her friends, in relation to her 'To the Lighthouse,' on the other hand, is a book of interrelationships among people, and though there are major and minor characters, the major ones are not, as Clarissa Dalloway was, It is Clarissa in relation to herself, her family, her friends, her servants, her milieu it is her servants, Dalloway,' of course, is Clarissa Dalloway from cover to cover, and for that reason it has a magnificently concentrated clarity. Made formally compact-one finds the method applied to somewhat different aims. Woolf in this new novel, 'To the Lighthouse,'īut though one encounters again her strikingly individual mingling of inward though with outward action in which the 'stream of consciousness' style is liberated from its usual chaos and by means of selection and a sense of order, Dalloway' is substantially retained by Mrs. Colby's highly successful 'Green Forest'Īnd just a faint flavor of it creeps into Babette Deutsch's much less successful 'In Such a Night.' The method of 'Mrs. Two novels of the present season seem to pay it the tribute of imitation. Dalloway' has begun already to make its influence keenly felt. Dalloway' that Virginia Woolf, achieved a novel of first-rate importance rather than of great promise and talent, and as a method in fiction, 'To The Lighthouse' Is a Brilliantly Ambitious Analysis of Domestic Psychology Virginia Woolf Explores an English Country Home

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