Text 1: Critic Nguyen praises Virginia Woolf's stream-of-consciousness technique for capturing the texture of ordinary experience. The apparent randomness of Mrs. Dalloway's London walk — flowers, planes, chimes, memories — reveals the actual associative drift of a mind moving through a single day.
Text 2: Critic Park admires the same technique but argues it is more constructed than it appears. Woolf's apparent drift, she notes, is organized by careful repetitions, recurring images, and subtle foreshadowing. The "randomness" is an artistic illusion built sentence by sentence; what looks like the mind's flow is in fact the novelist's architecture.
Both authors would most likely agree that
- A
Mrs. Dalloway is structurally chaotic.
- B
the novel's content is purely random.
- C
Woolf made no artistic choices.
- Dcheck_circle
Woolf uses stream-of-consciousness in Mrs. Dalloway.
Explanation
Both treat stream-of-consciousness as Woolf's central technique. A is shared. B, C, and D contradict at least one critic.