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Mrs. Dalloway (1998) presents a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an tweedy English woman. Clarissa Dalloway is the wife of Richard Dalloway, a Conservative Member of Parliament. The story takes sic in London on a day in June 1923, a day when Clarissa is giving a dinner party. She walks to the florist shop to grease ones palms flowers for the party.Admittedly, its no easy task to show a silly womans insane choices an engrossing cinematic experience. For that reason alone the people who tried to make a film of Virginia Woolfs novel, "Mrs. Dalloway" get an "E" for effort. It has a sumptuous look, refined supporting performances, and I wish I could have liked it more. The agnomen character, Clarissa Dalloway, is played by Vanessa Redgrave while she plans a party at her impressive home. As she does, she begins to recall the choice she made years ago when pursued by two suitors who could not have been more different. instead than reckless passion, her choice , born of cowardice, was for the security of a quiet life full moon of privilege. dig Walsh, an old and close friend of Clarissas, has returned to England after five years in India, and comes to visit her. Peter Walsh once loved Clarissa, and she had refused to adopt him. Clarissa introduces Peter to her daughter Elizabeth. Elizabeth is 17 years old, and has an older friend and coach-and-four named Doris Kilman. Elizabeth goes to lunch with send away Kilman. Miss Kilman is poor and physically unattractive, and resents the upper-class Mrs. Dalloway. Miss Kilman is a desperate and fanatically religious woman, who wants to take Elizabeth away from her mother, but conceals her feeling under the guise of religiosity and strident charity. Septimus Warren smith and his wife Lucrezia happen to be walking on the street. Septimus Warren metalworker never meets Mrs. Dalloway, but their lives are connected by external events, much(prenominal) as the sight of an airplane overhead, and by the fact that they are some(prenominal) sensitive people who feel empty. Septimus Warren Smith commits suicide the very(prenominal) day that Mrs. Dalloway is giving her dinner party.Clarissa Dalloway as a character in the novel is upper-class and conventional. She knows her life is shallow her former lover Peter Walsh had called her the perfect hostess. She feels that her only gift in life is in knowing a person through instinct.