Mo' than surface deep

A few days ago we began talking about the large differences between Woolf and Hemingway's writing style, now I largely prefer Hemingway's writing style but I still have a large amount of respect for both it's really interesting to see others insight on the world even if I do find them dull. The thing that really interests me about Hemingway is how shallow his writing can be, yet how much you learn from it. You really have to find your own motivations for each character, & judge them accordingly. This when reading by yourself keeps you entertained thinking about more than just whats on the page, but when you're reading in class it's really interesting to see how differing peoples reaction to characters like Brett are if you read her as somewhat of a manipulative villain charecter the book drastically shifts away from the theme of star-crossed lovers that was occasionally brought up. I really enjoy this because people in life themselves are very divisive my opinion of everyone I've ever really known I'm sure is different in at least some way from anyone else they knew. I also really like judging people, so being asked to pass judgments on characters in a novel is nice.

Parallels bewtween the hours and Mrs. Dalloway

I can't help but watch the hours and try to fit every aspect of the story within a larger frame of Mr.s Dalloway. I try to find which characters are equivalent to their literary counterparts. I try to fit every event within the theme/ideology of the book even if it doesn't fit. But I keep getting confused and just cramming everything together like some giant horrible train crash.

Heres a helpful list I am making more for myself than you (feel free to read it anyways):
Mrs. Dalloway timeline charecters:
Richie is equivalent to Septimus, but not entirely. While he does commit suicide and is going mad he is far too much a part of Clarissa's life im going to chalk that up to artistic liberties taken within making the movie. I do feel however that it removes the whole inter connectivity of complete strangers theme that permeates throughout the novel .
Clarissa is obviously the same charecter from mrs dalloway
Louis waters is Peter Walsh however he had a relationship with Richie which once again removes another aspect of Septimus's character
1951 Timeline
I struggled fitting this timeline within the whole theme of a loose interpretation of Mr.s Dalloway until the end, when trying to portray a characters thoughts in movies it is a lot harder than within a book. The feelings of hopelessness Clarissa had were all within her head and the way you see this housewife act you see the desperation and the return from the verge of suicide that occurred within the book.
Victorian woolf timeline
This I feel didn't pertain to the book but rather to add to the story. It really adds a lot of believability to unstable depressed characters when you know the person who invented them was unstable and depressed. It was also in itself an interesting story and easily the largest departure thematically and story-wise the movie makes from mrs. dalloway.

Virgina Woolf's Life & Her Writing

Watching The Hours in class today I got a better sense of Virginia Woolf's life and feel like her writing takes on a whole new light. she grew up in a Victorian household as well as suicidal. Making her own personality an amalgamation of Septimus and Clarissa which really makes me think that Mrs. Dalloway may really be in large parts about the clash of these two sides of her personality. She would switch form suicidal maniac to respected member of society, similar to how quickly she snaps from Clarissa to Septimus. Yet they're still somehow connected no matter how improbable the connection is, just like the multiple facets of her personality.

...Class Divisions?

I've really been liking these panels on Mrs. Dalloway, the discussion has been really intriguing and building an appreciation for the book i would not have gotten reading it on my own. The layers and layers of intricacies within the story I really feel like I would've glazed over reading them by myself.
Especially the critique of class divisions that surfaces throughout the book i.e the car montage. When taking stuff like that in it really takes the story to w a whole other level for me, Mrs. Dalloway is't just some overly reflective housewife buying flowers shes much larger than that, a symbol for all the good and bad that sprung from Victorian era England.
I was thinking of this the other day and really thought I was reading too much into this book, but upon watching the short documentary at the end of class today I really began to see how Clarissa and Septimus were not just two inhabitants of the same city but symbols for the changing times.
I'm sure I've only touched the surface of such a complex novel, but I'm not an english major so I wouldn't know anything else to say.