The opening of Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, for example, with Clarissa preparing for her party one fine June morning and leaving the house to buy some flowers finds its echo in the opening of the second chapter of The Hours, right down to the details of her chance encounter with an old friend, whom she invites on the spur of the moment to the party, her walk past various shops, her desire to buy a present for her daughter and the violent explosion that she hears once inside the florist’s. 1Michael Cunningham’s indebtedness to Virginia Woolf is all too obvious in The Hours, so much so that some critics have used the term “pastiche” to describe his novel.
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