Mrs Dalloway Walk

Today’s walk around Westminster really helped me shape the book up more in my mind. I think it must have been just going to Dean’s Yard, which is where Mrs Dalloway lived. Also going to Bond Street and seeing where the flower shop Mulberry’s was. It reminded me that the book takes place in a single day and that it would only take me a couple hours to go to the places she did. First we went to Westminister bridge and we saw the Royal Abbey. We heard the Big Ben ring and just like Woolf describes, it brought a calming sensation to me. Walking through St. James park and seeing the ducks, made me think of the walk hat Mrs. Dalloway took. I’m not sure what season this book takes place in, but it could be spring. It also rained during our walk and it made me think of the symbolism in the book, such as the airplane in the sky, connecting everyone that was looking at it. Everyone on the street we were at felt the same rain we did. So even though we don’t know what that person was going through or how their day is, we both felt the same wet rain.
That in a sense is nice to think about, because one could easily connect the whole world just through scenarios like this. It would create more empathy and you would be able to know how someone else feels. Mrs Dalloway, Clarissa, and Clarissa Dalloway are all the same person, and yet have different elements to them. When a person like Hugh asks how Clarissa is today, I know that he has a certain relationship with her to be able to call her that. When Mrs Dalloway goes into the flower shop, she is greeted by Clarissa Dalloway. I, myself act differently depending on where I am, and who I’m with. For example, with my family they might call me by my nickname Amoon instead of Amna. At school different teachers pronounce my name differently:
Imna
Omina
Emna
Amnah

I thought of this during our walk because it connected me to London in the same ways that it connected the people in this novel walking through London.