Mrs Dalloway Plot Summary - Schooling Online Full Lesson

📺 This Mrs Dalloway plot summary goes through all of the main events in Virginia Woolf's iconic novel. Watch more lessons like this one on our website!
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This lesson will give you an overall plot summary of Mrs Dalloway. Watch as Clarissa obsessively and meticulously plans a beautiful party for all her glittering, upper class guests. But she has a nagging sense that this might all be meaningless. In fact, Clarissa questions all her major life decisions, including her marriage to Richard. Should she have married Peter Walsh instead? And whatever happened to Clarissa’s first true love, Sally Seton? In another part of London, Septimus and Lucrezia Warren Smith are plunged into a crisis. With Septimus slipping further into madness, Lucrezia struggles to maintain hope. So, they turn to doctors out of desperation. But could seeking treatment for Septimus’ shellshock do more harm than good?
Watch our plot summary of Mrs Dalloway to find out what happens.
Note: As Mrs Dalloway does not have traditional chapters, we have divided the novel into 14 ‘Sections’. Following the Penguin Classics version of the novel (ISBN 9780141182490), the Sections are as follows:
Section 1: pp. 3-14 (‘Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.’ - ‘…those tyres of motor cars, were all her fault.’)
Section 2: pp. 14-31 (‘The violent explosion…’ - ‘…writing a T, an O, and F.’)
Section 3: pp. 31-52 (‘What are they looking at?’ - ‘…Peter Walsh shut the door.’)
Section 4: pp. 52-70 (‘Remember my party, remember my party…’ - ‘He never saw her again.’)
Section 5: pp. 71-77 (‘It was awful, he cried…’ - ‘…the quarter struck - the quarter to twelve.’)
Section 6: pp. 77-90 (‘And that is being young…’ - ‘…foo swee too eem oo.’)
Section 7: pp. 90-103 (‘Poor old woman…’ - ‘…Dr Holmes, looking not quite so kind.’)
Section 8: pp. 103-112 (‘It was precisely twelve o’clock…’ - ‘…she did not like that man.’
Section 9: pp. 112-128 (‘Shredding and slicing…’ - ‘…he thought, approaching his door.’)
Section 10: pp. 128-135 (‘The sound of Big Ben flooded…’ - ‘…in her mackintosh, listening to whatever they said.’)
Section 11: pp. 135-152 (‘Yes, Miss Kilman stood on the landing…’ - ‘…mounted the Westminster omnibus.’)
Section 12: pp. 152-165 (‘Going and coming, beckoning, signalling…’ - ‘So that was Dr. Holmes.’)
Section 13: pp. 165-180 (‘One of the triumphs of civilisation…’ - ‘He opened the big blade of his pocket-knife.’)
Section 14: pp. 181-213 end (‘Lucy came running full tilt downstairs…’ - ‘For there she was.’)
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[@yashililaao4180]

This book is indeed very hard to understand only through text , this audio explanation helped a lot ❤

[@p.livianos6622]

Is it just me or this book was extremely difficult to follow? I read it in Spanish, so the translation might have made the experience even more difficult. Thank you for the video ❤

[@aquafinner1505]

i’m reading it right now and she goes too fast 😭
i have no idea what she’s describing half of the time and characters come out of nowhere and she jumps from one thing to another and the vocabulary she uses i’m unfamiliar with i am seriously struggling w this book lmao. but it also makes sense considering these are mrs dalloways unfiltered thoughts to herself

[@anotherbeautifulday_emon]

It’s my current read (English) and I’ve been having a hard time to follow; hence, I’m in youtube. 😅

[@user-ur2jp1si7f]

Yeah, me too. I fancy myself a good reader but most of the time I’m struggling to understand what is happening, who is who and what’s the general context

[@CyberneticOrganism01]

The literary technique is called "stream of consciousness", once you get used to it, it'd be easier to follow their thoughts.

[@lavendela9403]

It’s not you. The book is torturous!

[@nalatasty]

This book is mesmerizing. As the hours go by and the city of London functions as a multicellular organism, the reader is taken to discover the worlds that take place within every single character. It is like each soul here hides a whole different novel inside. Virginia's style of writing is enchanting, captivating and very poetic. In addition, the themes that she's not afraid to present are full way ahead of their time. I mean, in this book we can read about love between women, about men fragility and sensibility, about mental health and suicide...everything treated with a delicate touch but without any kind of hesitation! For me, Mrs Dalloway is a real masterpiece 🙌

[@Lily-zi7ng]

A thank you is an understatement :(

[@anna.t._7224]

This summary is way better than the actual book

[@Yasharvl]

This is an utterly disrespectful thing to say. This video is good but you can’t compare these two works like this.

[@newajulhoque9309]

Hi, i am from India and i have exams today and i learnt everything from this video i didn't have to open my textbook.. thankyou:)

[@sumairahashmi7231]

an excellently elaborative summary with captivating visuals fastened me throughout... huge applause

[@salmanshahid8128]

Thank you so much for this abridged version. I myself read the book and couldn't understand most of the things. But the visuals and the voice, the pauses they were truly beyond praiseworthy. Thank you so much. ❤

[@Broatch6]

Excellent summary !
It’s a difficult read for most . Like the film (available on CZcams) this should make ‘Mrs Dalloway’ a little more accessible.

[@newajulhoque9309]

Now I don't need to read the book for my exam i understand everything in this video so I don't need to read the book😂.. love from India🇮🇳

[@markbeck8384]

Good summary. It's a wonderful book.

[@allgoodeducationalresource5959]

Lovely summary. Thank you.

[@dianal.6097]

Oh, the very last idea in the video - how beautifully said! I will certainly use this quote in my exam.
Thanks for helping us out with your work! Great illustrations and, from someone who's read the book, I have to say I'm impressed how you managed to capture all the details in this summary. In a sense, watching it felt like a second reading ❤

[@SchoolingOnline]

Thanks! So glad you found this summary helpful :)

[@danielalejandrovalcarce]

I reccomend watching the film. It is very faithful to the book and it is here in youtube

[@ErsatzMcGuffin]

NIce summery, thank you
May I suggest watching the movie "The Hours" for further understanding. I suspect that the movie may escape those with little background on the novel but it's hard to eat an elephant in one sitting. The Hours takes place in a different place and time but the story helps understanding the novel and adds perspective. Perhaps it may ring a bell or remind you of events that have touched your life.

[@CyberneticOrganism01]

I read an abridged version of the book, it's hugely enjoyable. So much so that it's one of my favorite novels. To be able to read the thoughts of the characters, I can feel that there's a love story going on. And also the characters are very vivid. I feel that I am kinda like Peter Walsh in a previous life.

[@kelleywatts7923]

thank you SO much!

[@ShazWag]

Great plot summary 👏

[@Bukhariphoenix]

Just 👌 👏

[@albertchessaofficial]

This is excellent! Aussie pride too :D

[@hiramonikalita4628]

Thank you ❤️

[@harperredfield1639]

thank you!

[@ashlead-dx5lj]

You saved me

[@albatross1469]

Piece of cake ❤

[@kaviclicks1709]

What a fantastic ckass is ! Wow..Tq Mam

[@YourYoutubefriend23]

such a nice presentation for students....i really appreciate your effort..but i have a question. can i ask??
why india came in that story?? does it mean that virginia woolf seen india as a place of boredom where unsuccessful british people used to go to find something worth doing??

[@michaelshehata7845]

it’s because peter walsh is a pretentious tourist, and just like other pretentious british assholes of the time, he decided to go hang out in India

[@MissEnas]

They were still colonized by the English .. she’s just representing what society people did back then. But you can of course argue this point if you wish

[@B6j365]

Refering to the original version or The Hours???!!!

[@netizencapet]

Not bad and a useful blitz review even for those who wade very deep into the novel's plethora of "meta-" perspectives and themes...since all those covert shades of meaning must interact with and swirl about the overt details of the plot.

[@abselditta2987]

Where I can to see in spanish?

[@muzamilishaq2475]

Cinch

[@Angryeskimo]

This book was unintelligible nonsense disguised as being profound, impossible to follow

[@kurtasarah9380]

Ure just dumb

[@Broatch6]

The verdict of most readers ! Just like Ulysses written by James Joyce at around the same time … both used stream of consciousness as a storytelling technique … and , really , it’s a bit over-rated

[@Lily-zi7ng]

Nandita Barkalita was here.

[@nanditabarkalita3622]

Mori ja.

[@Lily-zi7ng]

@@nanditabarkalita3622 fail toi.

[@BleachedSmiles]

Came in Clutch 🫡

[@Beautysecrets111]

Thank you 💖

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