The handling of time in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway

The handling of time in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway is two folded:

on the one side you see the protagonist moving around London and being disturbed by the strikes of the Big Ben that is a chronological organization of time,

on the other hand, the reader has a straightforward contact with Clarissa’s subjective reality rendered through a narrative traveling in space and time as to interconnected realities of her consciousness.

Leitmotivs and moments of being add a poetical flavor to the flow of her consciousness.