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Foreshadowing
Key Examples in Mrs Dalloway
Genre
Explanation and Analysis:
Mrs Dalloway combines Literary Realism's interest in the small, mundane elements of everyday life with Modernism's ambitious experiments with narration and nonlinear storytelling. In the novel, Woolf is very obviously concerned with presenting readers with an accurate depiction of daily life in London in the 1920s. However, although this interest in small, ordinary events certainly aligns with the tenets of Literary Realism, Woolf doesn't go about exploring the ins and outs of daily life using the conventional techniques of Realism—instead, she uses a slightly experimental, modernist approach to unveil the inner workings of her characters' lives.
