Mrs Dalloway
In Our Time: Culture
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Is There a War in the Novel?
The war is apparent in everything in this text, not just in the obvious moments. All sorts of words and images take you into the war, even when you think you're nowhere near it. For example, septimus sees the trees coming alive and sees his friend evans coming out from the trees. This is related not only toto his kind of psychotic state, but also a comment on the fact that at the time i there was a public campaign to plant trees immemorial to the war dead. So that and then the word leaves, you know, vanished like leaves that's talked about thewar dead. Every time you see a leaf in the tree, it's taking you
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