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'Mrs. Dalloway' is a wholly Modern novel, both thematically and stylistically. Virginia Woolf has an obvious feminist agenda -- this focus on societal movements like feminism is pure Modernism. The cultural switch from Romanticism showed more of an interest in politics, the self in relation to the community at large, rather than purely introspective works -- though Modernism can be just as self-centered. The writing style breaks from traditional structure with style. The use of chapters, or lack thereof, creates a very smooth and almost flowing feel to the narrative, which is written using the stream of consciousness technique. This too evidences it's Modern nature -- Romantic authors were usually quite rigid in structure, sticking to the most traditional of forms even in their prose. 'Mrs. Dalloway' is not a plot-driven novel, but a character-driven one. By switching the narrative from character to character, Woolf has achieved a timeless quality. The framework of the book is that of a single day's shopping and preparation for a party from the point of view of Clarissa Dalloway, with alternative narratives winding from character to character -- some of whom seem completely unrelated. This framewor