Commerce, Politics and the City in A Room of Ones Own and Mrs. Dallowa

Commerce, Politics and the City in A way of Ones Own and Mrs. Dalloway ...At this moment, as so often happens in London, in that location was a complete lull and suspension of traffic. Nothing came d avouch the avenue nobody passed. A single folio detached itself from the plane manoeuver at the end of the way, and in that pause and suspension fell. Somehow it was resembling a signal falling, a signal pointing to a force in things which one had overlooked ... Now it was bringing from one side of the street to the other diagonally a girl in patent whip boots and then a young man in a desert overcoat it was also bringing a hackerriolet-cab and it brought all three unitedly at a point directly beneath my window where the taxi stopped and the girl and the young man stopped and they got into the taxi and the cab glided off as if it were swept on by the current elsewhere. (A Room of Ones Own 100) Virginia Woolf - the version of her that narrates the events of A Room of Ones Own - observes the above urban scene from her window. In a pattern that she had perfected in Mrs. Dalloway tetrad years earlier, the rhythms of urban existence be closely articulated with those of the indwelling world - and that rhythmic coordination in turn serves as a broad of authorization of that urban existence, a guarantee of the transcendent meaning of the simply constructed human world. Thus the quietly definitive dropping of a leaf from its branch not only seems a sort of rhythmic plan for the ballet-like convergence of girl, man and taxi-cab, but also in fact the secret cause of that convergence, a signal bringing this ... ...fied royal, the skywriting of an advertisers airplane) are analogues of the narrations own sure-footed focalizing sweep - straight off airborne, now moving down city streets, now fanning out across parks, always able to join disparate characters in a cohesive narrative line. But they are uneasy analog ues, for they are patently the product not of some transcendent or subjective meaning but of powerful modern interests the nation, entertainment, commerce. Clarissas intimations of timeless spiritual connectivity, and the narrations own performance of that connectivity, move in the grooves set down by these truly modern institutions. Works cited Virginia Woolf. Mrs. Dalloway. London Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1925. ____________. A Room of Ones Own. London Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1929.