"What a lark! What a plunge! For so it had aways seemed to her, when, with a little squeak of the hinges, which she could hear now, she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air" (Woolf 3).
In her book, Virginia Woolf plays with time in a way most books do not. In this quote, she is describing just how easily a memory can pop up and transport a person back in time. All it took for Clarissa to feel as if she was back at Bourton was the sound of a hinge squeaking, and that sound sends her into thinking back on, and questioning, the choices she made in her past.
Woolf, Virginia, and Francine Prose. Mrs. Dalloway. Orlando: Harcourt, 2003. Print.
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