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- Clarissa and Sally planned to change the world.
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Sally Seton, in Clarissa’s memory, was a wild, cigarette-smoking, dark-haired rebel. Once Sally ran naked through the hallway at Bourton. Her behavior frequently shocked Clarissa’s old Aunt Helena. Clarissa and Sally planned to change the world.
Quick answer: Sally Seton plays a significant role in Clarissa Dalloway's life by representing a break from societal norms and awakening Clarissa's desires and rebellious...
Clarissa remembers with some disbelief the Sally from Bourton and cannot reconcile those images with the Sally that has appeared in her home. Brazen, wonderful, creative Sally is now the wife of a miner, the mother of five sons, a gardener, and a lady (her married name is Lady Rosseter).
As a girl, Sally was without inhibitions, and as an adult at the party, she is still effusive and lacks Clarissa’s restraint. Long ago, Sally and Clarissa plotted to reform the world together. Now, however, both are married, a fate they once considered a “catastrophe.”
Sally gave Clarissa radical things to read and together they planned to change the world. Clarissa’s old Aunt Helena found Sally shocking and improper, even her habit of cutting the heads off of flowers and floating them in water.
Sally was Clarissa's inspiration to think beyond the walls of Bourton, to read, to philosophize, to fantasize. Woolf describes the kiss between Sally and Clarissa as an epiphany of sorts, an ecstasy, Sally stopped; picked a flower; kissed her on the lips. The whole world may have turned upside down!
As teenagers, Sally and Clarissa had grand plans to change the world. They wanted to abolish private property, make revolutionary reforms, read William Morris, and live freely. They thought marriage was a catastrophe.
