Mrs. Dalloway: Inhabiting a modern city still experiencing the ripple effects of the Great War, the novel demonstrates attempts to wholly incorporate all of the world's senses both through formal features and Clarissa's obsession with the public world. With most of the information we get of the characters coming curiously from descriptions of other characters' observations, a sense of interconnectedness amongst everyone's consciousnesses feeding simultaneously on one another is formed. More particularly, Clarissa, in her feelings of being disconnected from the rest of the world, attempts to deliberately "[slice] like a knife through everything," consuming a buffet of senses in order to better connect with the public world so that she may utilize her "only talent" of being a perfect hostess to its maximum capacity.