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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.
When she was young Clarissa had felt that Sally would end up a martyr of some kind, but instead Sally had married a rich man and had five boys. Clarissa thinks that her past belongs to Peter and Sally more than to anyone else.
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.
Sally Seton exists only as a figure in Clarissa’s memory for most of the novel, and when she appears at Clarissa’s party, she is older but still familiar. Though the women have not seen each other for years, Sally still puts Clarissa first when she counts her blessings, even before her husband or five sons.
They thought marriage was a catastrophe. Clarissa fell in love with Sally for having these qualities, but also feared that things would end badly for Sally – that her life would end with tragedy and martyrdom. These fears were unfounded though, as Sally later becomes Lady Rosseter and has five sons.
Sally Seton offers Clarissa the promise of emancipation from gender normativity and the roles that accompany it. Sally rejects certain “feminine” roles and adopts some that are “masculine”, ultimately highlighting the disparity between sex and gender. Contemporaneous ideas of femininity were closely linked to sexuality.
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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...
