Question

This passage describes the musings of Mrs. Dalloway's friend Lucrezia as she walks by herself in Regent's Park. (Lucrezia took care of her husband, a war veteran who was gradually sinking into insanity. She married him in Milan, Italy, and moved to London with him.) In this passage, what is the night compared to?

Answer 1

Answer: B: Lucrezia's plight as a married woman.

Explanation:

Mrs. Dalloway is a novel written by Virginia Woolf and published in 1925. Set in England after World War I, the novel tells a story about a high-society woman named Clarissa Dalloway.

Lucrezia Warren Smith is a twenty-four-year-old girl, who gets married and has to move from Italy to England with her husband. Her story is a sad one, as her husband becomes mentally ill. She feels lonely by his side and worries all the time, unable to share her thoughts with anyone.