Memoirs In Mrs Dalloway...

What do they symbolise?

• Virginia Woolf wanted to explore people's 'beautiful caves' and this is just what memoirs do
• Shows Mrs Dalloway cares about people's thoughts and feelings, as well as revealing an interest in the inner self beyond someone's public persona
• She reads General Brown Maket who returned from Moscow a failure
• It is a way to escape the way you see the world and see how someone else sees it
• Mrs Dalloway only reads memoirs in bed so she can escape reality. It also indicates that she reads memoirs instead of making love to her husband, further emphasizing the idea that their relationship is not very passionate
• Mrs Dalloway also wants to remember things. Her best years were in her past (at Bourton) so why would she want to look to the future?