ABSTRACT
Mrs. Dalloway is a completely unified novel. Its unity is achieved in large measure through its texture: the density of the writing, and the devices and techniques by which the whole is enriched and given a seamless quality. Of major significance is the cluster of images by which the author reaches from the outer world to the inner and which, through its recurrent patterning, creates the 'rhythmic order' of the novel. The main characters of Mrs. Dalloway are similarly caught up in the current, or the ebb and flow of life, and it is through its steady rhythmic presence that their separate lives are gauged, connected, and a structure of meaning is built up in the novel. What the reader is left with at the end of the novel is the reality that has been explored figuratively through the rhythmic order with which Virginia Woolf has invested the various scenes, reflections, and occurrences of the novel.
