How Is Clarissa Dalloway Similar In The Hours

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Ebalang, Jeremae ENG 1B Mantazaris 22 March 2015 Essay # 2 The Hours It is fascinating how people can share similar habits, yet live different lifestyles. Two people can be muse over the details of their life, but at the same time one can feel perfectly content about his or her life, while the other feels something is missing from his or her own. Reflection produces different results in different people. In Michael Cunningham’s novel, The Hours, the characters Clarissa Dalloway and Laura Brown share similarities in the way that they often self reflect on their life. However, despite their shared self-reflective tendencies, they live significantly contrasting lifestyles, where Clarissa Dalloway is a lesbian mother who is quite pleased with the life she has, while Laura Brown is the traditional “cookie-cutter” mother, who feels her life has become rather dreary.…show more content…
Clarissa reflects on her past life, more often than not on her relationships with everyone around her. “She touches his thin shoulder with her fingertips. How is it possible that she feels regret? How can she imagine, even now, that they might have had a life together? They might have been husband and wife, soul mates, with lovers on the side” (Cunningham 68). The quote above is an example of just one of the many relationships Clarissa Dalloway has formed that shows how she still wonders about the potential of relationships that could have been. On page 92, her reflections are once again

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