Mrs.Dalloway has two stories about the same woman.Mrs.Dalloway is her social self,busy with her party,seemingly happy but with some hidden problems.The individual self as Clarissa is lost in deep thought of her true self.The textual analysis will apply Lacan＇s theory of name-of-the-father or symbolic order to explore the causes of Clarissa＇s problematic social self.It concludes that the protagonist begins the process of self-discovery by thinking about and talking with her close friends,trying to dig out her individual self which is suppressed by social self.
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