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    The document provides background information on Michael Cunningham's novel The Hours, which tells the stories of three women - Virginia Woolf in 1923 as she writes Mrs. Dalloway, housewife Laura Brown in 1949 Los Angeles reading Woolf's book, and New York editor Clarissa Vaughn in the late 20th century drawing parallels to Mrs. Dalloway. It discusses Cunningham's inspiration from Woolf's life and work, the themes of mortality, mental illness and domestic roles in the three intertwining stories, and praise and critique of the novel and its 2003 film adaptation.

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    The document provides background information on Michael Cunningham's novel The Hours, which tells the stories of three women - Virginia Woolf in 1923 as she writes Mrs. Dalloway, housewife Laura Brown in 1949 Los Angeles reading Woolf's book, and New York editor Clarissa Vaughn in the late 20th century drawing parallels to Mrs. Dalloway. It discusses Cunningham's inspiration from Woolf's life and work, the themes of mortality, mental illness and domestic roles in the three intertwining stories, and praise and critique of the novel and its 2003 film adaptation.

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    The document provides background information on Michael Cunningham's novel The Hours, which tells the stories of three women - Virginia Woolf in 1923 as she writes Mrs. Dalloway, housewife Laura Brown in 1949 Los Angeles reading Woolf's book, and New York editor Clarissa Vaughn in the late 20th century drawing parallels to Mrs. Dalloway. It discusses Cunningham's inspiration from Woolf's life and work, the themes of mortality, mental illness and domestic roles in the three intertwining stories, and praise and critique of the novel and its 2003 film adaptation.

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    The Hours

    Marica
    Morikot
    Keywords
    z Stream of consciousness
    z Point of view
    z Postmodern
    z Internal conflict
    z Mortality
    z Mental Illness
    z Domesticity
    Michael Cunningham
    z Born: Cincinnati, Ohio 1952
    z Education: read Mrs. Dalloway at age 15
    z Graduated: Stanford University 1975
    z B.A. In English Lit.
    z University of Iowa – Writer's Workshop 1980
    z M.F.A.
    z Debut novel: Golden State 1984
    The Hours
    z Publication 1998
    z Awards
    z Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulker 1999
    z Structure
    z Retrospective narrative
    − Point of view
    z Stream of Consciousness
    z Themes
    z Mortality
    z Mental illness
    z Switched domestic roles
    Inspiration
    z Mrs. Dalloway
    z Read it at age 15
    z Virginia Woolf
    z QUOTE FROM INTERVIEW
    Main Characters
    z Virginia Woolf
    z 1923
    z Sussex, England
    z Laura Brown
    z 1949
    z Los Angeles
    z Clarissa Vaughn
    z Late twentieth century
    z New York City
    Virginia Woolf

    z Commits suicide in the Prologue


    z English novelist
    z Wife of publisher, Leonard Woolf
    z Struggles with headaches and voices in her
    head
    z Switched domestic roles
    z Begins writing Mrs. Dalloway
    Laura Brown
    z Housewife and young mother in 1949, L.A.
    z Married to war veteran, Dan Brown
    z Suffers from depression
    z Guilty and resentful of her domestic life
    z Reads the novel Mrs. Dalloway
    Clarissa Vaughn
    z Nicknamed, Mrs. Dalloway by her close friend
    and ex-lover, Richard
    z Lesbian editor in New York City
    z Lives a domestic life with her lover, Sally
    z Fears mortality
    z Questions her decisions that lead her to this
    point in her life
    Similarities to Mrs. Dalloway
    z Clarissa is given the name Dalloway by Richard
    z Richard becomes depressed from contracting
    AIDS
    z Relevance to Septimus
    z Ex-lover, Louis = Peter Walsh?
    z Sally and Clarissa's lesbian relationship
    Similarities continued...
    z Stolen Kisses
    z Clarissa and Sally
    − Virginia and her sister
    − Laura and her neighbor
    z Flowers
    z Dan buys flowers for Laura
    z Sally buys flowers for Clarissa
    z Party
    z Clarissa plans a party later that day
    z Invites a friend she runs into while running errands
    z Glimpse of a celebrity
    Critics
    z Praise
    z Washington Post
    z Los Angeles Times
    z New York Times
    z Critique
    z Readers
    − Tries to interpret the lives of women from the outside
    looking in
    − Mimicry of Virginia Woolf's classic
    The Hours film
    z Premiered in December 2003
    z Directed by Stephen Daldry
    z Screenplay by David Hare
    z Staring
    z Meryl Streep as Clarissa Vaughn
    z Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf
    z Susan Surandon as Laura Brown
    z “Capturing Virginia”
    z http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30TOgCVavV8&
    NR=1&feature=fvwp

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