Mrs Dalloway Elizabeth quotations

Differences between C's and E's potential futures - E doesn't want to play into the traditionally feminine role

'And her old Uncle William used to say a lady is known by her shoes and her gloves... Gloves and shoes; she had a passion for gloves; but her own daughter, her Elizabeth, cared not a straw for either of them.'

Clarissa's possession, used as a tool to taunt Peter Walsh

'My Elizabeth'

Elizabeth doesn't look like her family, different, alien

'For the Dalloways in general were fair-haired; blue-eyed; Elizabeth, on the contrary, was dark; had Chinese eyes in a pale face; an Oriental mystery; was gentle, considerate, still'

inexperienced, unfamiliar with the outside world, Clarissa's concern

'a hyacinth which has had no sun'

object of DK's admiration

'the beautiful girl'

privileged, closed off from the rest of society

'Elizabeth had never thought about the poor'

Elizabeth can feel that she is being forced to become a Lady

'it was beginning'; she wants to be in the countryside with her father and her dogs, not at parties in London

other people's perception of her - elegant, feminine

'poplar trees, early dawn, hyacinths, fawns, running water and garden lilies'

apathy - can't really rebel

'She inclined to be passive.'

description of the omnibus = adventure, freedom, rebellion

'the impetuous creature - a pirate... reckless, unscrupulous, bearing down ruthlessly... She was delighted to be free. The fresh air was so delicious... For no Dalloways came down the Strand daily; she was a pioneer, a stray, venturing, trusting.'

new possibilities for women

'And every profession is open to the women of your generation, said Miss Kilman. So she might be a doctor. She might be a farmer.... But she was, of course, rather lazy.'