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MRS DALLOWAY’S QUE GAY
Several crics, such as Joseph Allen Boone and Ann Ronchetti, have explored the topic of homosexualy Woolf’s Mrs. Some crics view not only Clarissa Dalloway as a “reprsed homosexual victimized by patriarchal cultural, ” but Septim Warren Smh as well (Ronchetti 164).
Acrdg to cric Alex Zwerdlg, “Woolf’s fictn equently picts homosexual and lbian attachments wh sympathy and yet whout special pleadg, ” challengg Victorian sexual prejudic by treatg homosexual characters wh the same “basic digny as sexually nventnal characters” (171).
It is possible that the guilt he feels for “lyg” to Lucrezia and the “crime” he nnot remember are the rult of reprsed homosexualy and the guilt for harborg feelgs beyond his ntrol.