Narrativizing Characters in Mrs. Dalloway 
Tunneling Process
Mrs. Dalloway vs Mrs.Dalloway in Bond Street
Mrs. Dalloway
social minds in action
Affective narrativization
Woolf
destabilizes her audience
endows Mrs Dalloway
mind central dilemma
model narrativizer
immenet woman
highly prized character
reading qualities
many social minds in action
Peter
cannot stop thinking about Clarissa
describes Mrs. Dalloway
dominates any scene
continues to be psychologically and physiologically affected by her presence
suicide
climactic
death at Clarissa's party
phsyically affected by it
theories about what Septimus thought before he killed himself
what feelings motivated his actions
Clarissa
presence provokes affective narrativization
interiority not revealed
elude reader
Septimus and Rezia
focalisers
interpret events and others' behaviors
juxtaposing
Richards inner stream of thoughts
social minds in action
frame narrative
thinkinf visible
against his environment
character reading
study of character itself
further step novelist takes
narrativization
letter writing passage
Mrs. Brown in centre
provoked her
never actually cultivates
Clarissa
freely narrativizes other minds
one of many minds engaged in practice of theory of the mind
everyday not transparent
not inaccessible to other minds
model of openness
affected by others
open out narratives
create inner lives
embody free indirect discourse
desires to know other
Mrs. Dalloway
fascinates peter
and implied reader
septimus and Mrs. D interrelated
both open on street scene
shopping errand
contemplates the problem of suicide
relates to others that shift from Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street
response from implied reader is muted
complacent condescending manner
Double for Clarissa
suicide
promptly affective narrativization
deeply affects her
in place of her own
raises questions
why did he do it?
what happened ?
what does it mean ?
Peter
focaliser
shift from short story to novel
narrativizing Clarissa
peter engages with "character reader"
theory of the mind
creating version of Mrs. D's mind
third person
past tense narration
who is the real Mrs. D?
exists in the mind of others
Septimus and Mrs. D must be seen from the outside
peter narrativizes clarissa
intro of lucretia
tunnel for septimus
provides tunnel to her
Woolf disallows reader complete view of Mrs. D.
deliberate
everyday minds are not transparent
are accessible
implied reader looks at its object from the inside
characters connected
plunged into the innermost recesses of Dalloway's mind
thinking and feelings felt
focalisation
different perspectives
shifts
opening line
"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself"
ambiguous
free indirect discourse
silent or aloud?