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And while Clarissa is not repulsed at all by her reflection in the window, Mrs. Woolf is another story, as far as how she sees herself. "She does not look directly into the oval mirror that hangs above the basin...she does not permit herself to look." The mirror, to Mrs. Woolf, "is dangerous; it sometimes shows her the dark manifestation of air that matches her body, takes her form but stands behind... [and] she washes her face and does not look..."

Virginia Woolf, in her husband's eye, is "pale and tall, startling as a Rembrandt...she has aged dramatically, just this year, as if a layer of air has leaked out from under her skin. She's grown craggy and worn...suddenly no longer beautiful." Not only has Virginia lost her loveliness, she is joined by the devil.

There is evil living within a brilliant mind, the ultimate juxtaposition that defines a character as having a struggle to be positive at all, let alone sustain happiness for any lengthy period of time. About Woolf: "The devil is a voice inside a wall..

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.the devil sucks all the beauty from the world, all the hope, and what remains when the devil has finished is a realm of the living dead - joyless, suffocating."

And while readers are nearly suffocated with the pathos of Woolf's re-created struggles in Cunningham's book, Laura Brown uses the real Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway to help her get through her own struggles. The juxtaposition of those dramas is compelling, and it also helps the characterization of this novel. And yet there are life-enriching moments in each of the three women's lives; Clarissa of course is happy to be gathering flowers and preparing for a fun party; Virginia is excited for awhile, too, feeding off the creative spirit that is part of her planning of gatherings for others; and as for Laura, her home "feels more densely inhabited, more actual," Cunningham writes, because "a character named Mrs. Dalloway is on her way to buy flowers."

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