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Mrs. Dalloway I think would have had been much more fun to read if it wasn’t written the way it was, even if that’s what makes it so great for others. I think that the subject was really interesting, but just because of the way the language is used, and how everything seems to go sooo slow, it just loses the reader. I like a book that has great themes and keeps me attached to it, and I just have to keep reading, and I don’t have to read the same paragraph more than three times because I dozed off by the second line. Even though it was boring to read it did however have some really interesting points, such as Mrs Dalloway appearing to be someone that she doesn’t feel is really her, she feels as she puts up an act to appear someway to be accepted by high society, but in the end she knows more than that.  My favorite part was when Mrs. Dalloway some how felt some kind of connection with the veteran that killed himself, just to safe his own soul form being captured, I think that to a great extent she admired him, and at the same time she felt relieved somehow. “She felt somehow very like him—the young man who had killed himself. She felt glad that he had done it; thrown it away.”