The character of Lucrezia Warren Smith in Virginia Woolf's
Mrs. Dalloway is twenty four years old. She is described with the
following traits and characteristics.
readability="14">She had a right to his arm, though it was
without feeling. He would give her, who was so simple, so impulsive, only twenty-four,
without friends in England, who had left Italy for his sake, a piece of
bone.We know that her age is
a clever trait to add to her character because it allows the reader to appreciate the
contrast between Lucrezia and her husband. She is still young enough to live for a long
time and try for a better life, but she is stuck in her situation due to his mental
illness. It had emaciated and consumed her, an otherwise vibrant woman. It is as if she
were a waste of time and space due to her husband's problems.
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