Virginia Woolf and Joyce are the most important exponents of the modernist fiction. Miss Dalloway represents a revolution in the art of novel writing.
The rhythm is made of the alternation between what Clarisse wants, thinks and feels (interior monologue) and the external reality (what happens around her).
The text is composing into sequences. There is the third person omniscient narrator who adopts Clarissa’s point of view. This allows the reader to know what there is inside Clarissa’s mind.
The language consists of in directed free style, free from logical connections between the phrases.
Clarissa is a self-assured character, sure about her status-“red hands”: metonymy allows the reader to understand the social class.The most important feature of the text consists of the shift of the points of view: time in Clarissa’s mind is different from real time of the world arrowed her. The explosion in the text appeals to senses: it represents a brutal passage. Both two characters listen to the explosion even if they are distances. The narrator links them because he wants to juxtapose two people who are both suffering. They are looking for a sense of life. (The narrator makes them travel in space).