"There was Regent's Park. Yes. As a child he had walked in Regents Park - odd, he thought, how the thought of childhood keeps coming back to me - the result of seeing Clarissa, perhaps; for women live much more in the past than we do, he thought" (Woolf 55).
In this quote, Peter seems to be denying the fact that he is extremely sentimental; he says that women live much more in the past, and that it was Clarissa who brought his thoughts back to that time. In the meantime, Clarissa goes about worrying about her party, and making sure everything is right for it, and briefly thinking about all the times at Bourton, but she has resolve enough to not second guess herself. Peter, on the other hand, is all washed up about the whole deal. Woolf does this in order to illustrate how gender roles can differ completely depending on the people in the roles.
Woolf, Virginia, and Francine Prose. Mrs. Dalloway. Orlando: Harcourt, 2003. Print.
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