"Look! Her wedding ring slipped- she had grown so thin. It was she who suffered- but she had nobody to tell." (Woolf 23)
In Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Clarissa is an aging woman that pities herself about the relationship she holds with her husband, Richard. During the day that the reader is taken through in the novel, Clarissa does not come across as having many close friends, she merely has acquaintances that she runs into whilst going about her errands in preparation for the party she is throwing. This section reminds me of an excerpt in The Last Tournament, by Lord Alfred Tennyson:
'Take thou the jewels of this dead innocence, And make them, an thou wilt, a tourney-prize.' This quote seems similar in the sense that Clarissa was an innocent young girl, a prize jewel, a 'tourney-prize' that Richard claimed as his wife, and not much more than that. Now that she is growing older, the prize is becoming slightly tarnished.
The Last Tournament, 1872, Lord Alfred Tennyson
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. New York: Harcourt, Brace and, 1925. Print.
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