The question of whether someone is a kind person is a difficult one to answer, especially when it's about a real person. Similarly, Clarissa from Mrs. Dalloway is not a clear-cut case, which speaks to the realistic characters Woolf has created. Certainly she can behave or think in nasty ways. While we have not yet finished the book, there are a number of moments when she seems unkind. For example, during the motorcar scene, she thinks condescendingly of the "British middle classes", thinking about the ridiculousness of their clothes and their unrefined manner. She blames the buses, and, in a way, the lower classes, for blocking the Queen (Woolf 17). This may be interpreted as classism, although I wouldn't be so hasty in labeling her as a classist, since this is, after all, early twentieth-century England, and the context is very different from our world today. Clarissa also appears to be frequently subject to jealousy. In the space of a couple hours, we see h
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