Structuring Mrs. Dalloway

The narrative point of view determines the way a novel is told and contributes to the work's artistic effect. The stream of consciousness novelist Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway displays her modernist writing techniques. This thesis paper intends to study the uses of narrative point of view in the novel and its artistic effect. Woolf uses zero point of view and internal point of view by turns as the focal characters changes. Meanwhile the transition of points of view also helps to create the innovative narrative structure. Multiple internal points of view enable the subject of life and death in the novel to be prominent.