Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself

I wrote about my feelings about the movie, "The Hours" sometime back. Have always been curious about the lead character in the novel by Virginia Woolf. Hence, when I chanced upon the movie at videoezy, I had to get it... My thoughts about the movie is just about the same as what I have written below... (Be kind here 'k, I am not writing a review! :)


"I think I will get Clarissa some flowers. I will pop by on my way to see her."

Where women wore hats and petticoats. And striped petticoats are expensive. And names of guests at parties are announced at the door by the butler.

Back to the days where boating in the lake and racing against each other up the hill are the leisure activities of the carefree middle-class in post WWI England.

A young man made depressed by his experiences in the war ("delayed shell shock"), and couldn't get out of his world of convulated thoughts. On the edge of his life. Just like Virginia Woolf.

Do you want someone who wants everything of you; or someone who gives you room to breathe?

Clarissa's parties. Where people are dressed in feathers, head to toe.

What's the host's relationship with her/his guests? What are the thoughts in her mind when she/he shook my hands? What is behind that smile?

High society parties. The rich mingling with the rich. Everything is a performance.

She likes to give parties, to give others a good times, where ladies are ladies, gentlemen are gentlemen. However, there is no connection between her and her guests. She didn not know that in that party, there are people who love her.

What does the brain matter, compared to the heart?

*Flashbacks of scenes from "The Hours"*

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I am interested to read the novel :)