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ting contrast within the character of Clarissa Dalloway using stream of consciousness narration in her novel Mrs. Dalloway. Clarissa’s inner thoughts reveal a contrast between her lack of attraction to her husband due to her lesbian feelings and her fear of loo ....

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.... relationship and sexual attraction with her husband since the birth of her teenage daughter Elizabeth: “...she could not dispel a virginity preserved through childbirth which clung to her like a sheet.” Clarissa tells us of her true sexuality as she remembers her girlhood friend Sally Seton. Sally is the only person that Clarissa has ever had any real passionate feelings for. “But this question of love, this falling in love with women. Take Sally Seton; her relation in the old days with Sally Seton. Had not that, after all, been love?” Although Sally held her heart, her homosexual feelings were not socially acceptable. Clarissa is th ....