"..not for a moment did she believe in God; but all the more, she thought, taking up the pad, must one repay in daily life to servants, yes, to dogs and canaries, above all to Richard her husband, who was the foundation of it- of the gay sounds, of the green lights, of the cook even whistling..." (Woolf 29)
In Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Clarissa is enraptured by Modernism in the sense that she questions religion and outwardly proclaims that she does not believe in God. Because of this, she believes that it is ever more crucial to do good things for others, for there is no time to sin; no afterlife to make things right and settle one's affairs. Mrs. Dalloway believes that her husband is at the root of why her life is the way it is, and for that, he is the reason that everything is the way it is. She seems to think that she is extremely indebted to him.
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. New York: Harcourt, Brace and, 1925. Print.
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