Place in V. Woolf vs. L. Woolf

To me, place in Mrs. Dalloway is much more dynamic and as readers we experience the more visceral act of living, of being in the moment of place and time as the characters experience it. I really enjoy the multiple perspectives which lend to the fullness of both personal and communal experience. In Mrs. Woolf we have uninhibited access to mind as setting, where mood, memory, and physical space all interact within the sub-conscious, evoking interplay between past and present, time and place.

In The Village in the Jungle place is more fixed, more static and thus less sensational. Nature seems to elicit physical and emotional responses from the characters without the resultant glimpses into the psyche which lend such immediacy to Mrs. Dalloway. In Leonard Woolf's novel the characters' struggle for survival leaves little time for canvassing the sub-conscious, as both nature and village serve as points of congestion and discordance for the Sinhalese, leaving them with a relatively vague apprehension of their personal turmoil.