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‘We are sharply cut off from our predecessors,’ she writes. ‘A shift in the scale—the war, the sudden slip of masses held in position for ages—has shaken the fabric from top to bottom, alienated us from the past and made us perhaps too vividly conscious of the present. Every day we find ourselves doing,
saying, or thinking things that would have been impossible for our
fathers’ (p. 27). This loosening-up of the mental, moral, and material conditions of life is experienced by both Peter Walsh and Elizabeth Dalloway in Mrs Dalloway. When Elizabeth walks down the Strand, for example, she senses that the ‘accumulated robustness’ of both the sky and society have been shifted by the First World War,
whereas Peter Walsh reflects that the ‘five years—1918 to 1923—had been … somehow very important. People looked different. Newspapers seemed differe
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