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Life and War: WWI and WWII in British and American Fiction

While there are plenty of novels written about wars, sometimes the absence, aftermath, or anticipation of a war can define a literary work just as much. No one need doubt how World War I affected Frederic Henry in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. In fact, no one who's read any Hemingway can doubt how WWI affected Hemingway itself. The war and its aftermath define his fiction. Conversely, Anyone who reads about Virginia Woolf's London can't help but think of the bombings her beloved city will suffer not long after novels like Mrs. Dalloway and Between the Acts takes place.

Clarissa Dalloway's sunny London, filled with flowers, parties to plan, and memories of past loves, seems about as far away from the horror and destruction of WWII as any setting could be possibly be. While it's true that the horrors of World War I did affect Mrs. Dalloway's dear friend Septimus Smith to the point of causing his suicide, the suicide (and thus, the war) is just one event in a day that's otherwise defined by running errands in the sunshine. It's an unavoidable unpleasantness, unbearable for some, but an afterthought for others.

Similarly the East and West Eggs of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby don't seem to have much to do with the Great War that has recently concluded. Gatsby's life is, on the surface at least, all about parties, swimming pools, and "beautiful shirts." As the story progresses, the reader does learn about the real tragedy of Gatsby's life, but even that isn't World War I; it's his unrequited love for the spoiled, shallow Daisy Buchanan. Life in the 1920s may have been difficult for a lot of Americans, but not the ones in this novel. Their troubles are all of their own making: affairs, dishonesty, driving the wrong cars.

In many ways, Gatsby's post-War lifestyle is a lot more shocking than Septimus Smith's. Who could bear normal life after experiencing battle? How does one go from the front lines back to a comfortable city or suburban life? While the act of suicide is always shocking, isn't it equally shocking to have experienced the horror of war and be able to come home, throw parties for people you don't know and spend your time pining over the same drippy girl for years on end? Despite his apparent ability to cope with the aftermath of war, Gatsby also meets a tragic end.

Stronger even than Septimus Smith's inability to live his normal life after experiencing something incredibly intense is Kurz's apparent inability to even survive it. Though Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is not actually a war story, it feels like one. The men in this story are far from home and doing things they probably never imagined they would. Kurz takes ill, presumably with some dangerous African disease, but when he utters his famous final words -"The horror! The horror!" - Marlow (the story's narrator) believes he's actually referring to the terrible things that he has done in the name of ivory.

About the Author

Paul Thomson is an avid reader of English Literature. His areas of interests include researching on WWII and Great Gatsby. In his spare time, he loves to participate in online literature forums and promote reading for youth.

What is the significance of Dr. Bradshaw and Dr. Holmes to the novel Mrs. Dalloway?

I'm writing an essay on how Dr. Bradshaw and Dr. Holmes are mentor figures to Septimus (though not in a positive way) and I'm supposed to explain how this contributes to the work as a whole, but I'm stuck.

Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

Study Guides:

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In Mrs Dalloway all of the action, excepting flashbacks, takes place on a single day in June. It is an example of stream of consciousness storytelling; every scene closely tracks the momentary thoughts of a particular character. Woolf blurs the distinction between direct and indirect speech throughout the novel, alternating her narration with omniscient description, indirect interior monologue, direct interior monologue, and soliloquy. The narration follows at least twenty characters in this way, but the bulk of the novel is spent with Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Smith.

Because of structural and stylistic similarities, Mrs Dalloway is commonly thought to be a response to James Joyce’s Ulysses a text that is often hailed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Woolf herself derided Joyce's novel (the Hogarth Press, run by her and her husband Leonard, turned down the chance to publish the novel in England).

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