What Is Multiple Focalizers In Mrs Dalloway

1. The (American spelling) focalizer in the selection you read from Mrs. Dalloway changes at least eight times. Time also moves forward when the focalizer changes. How does Woolf create those changes? What leads us from one focalizer to another? Find three examples. Woolf uses multiple focalizers in Mrs. Dalloway to create a new point of view in the story. Woolf indicates these changes through subtle transitions that are hardly noticed at, as the story shifts to another viewpoint of a character. Sometimes we are led between focalizers in ways, such as at the beginning of Mrs. Dalloway when Clarissa begins to transition into the past reminiscing. This is shown through subtle changes in tense that Woolf uses, as she switches from present tense to past tense. The change can also be seen through clarifications of the time frame the viewpoint is in, such as lines “(for a girl of eighteen as she then was)” (2338). Another example of the change in focalizer happens on page 2344, this introduces the new viewpoint from Septimus Warren Smith. This new focalizer is introduced by describing Septimus’ appearance. This can be seen in lines such as, “Septimus Warren Smith, aged about thirty, palefaced, beak-nosed, wearing brown shoes” (2344). This description creates an introduction to the new focalizer and point of view. An additional example of this change can be seen in the switch to the focalizer of Septimus’ wife, Lucrezia. This change comes in the form of a change in narrator,