“Behind the cotton wool [of daily life] is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art. Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the world. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven; certainly and emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.”

—Virginia Woolf, A Sketch of the Past

1.

Through this quotation Virginia Woolf gives her readers an idea about the characters of this book. If we read this reading very carefully than we can see that she is trying to construct the abstract of her characters. “Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern” with the character Mrs. Dalloway she tries to show the how the real character of Clarissa is hidden behind the daily life an ordinary woman. Here is picture of the daily journey of Mrs. Dalloway on the street of London.

2.

“I mean all human beings— are connected with this;” with this she tries to say that the connection between the human beings are build up to continue the cycle of the daily life. Our daily life is an art and we are the artist. We can see the same connections in her characters as well. All the characters are picturing themselves in a different way while the realities of these characters are different. This is the work of an artist. Here is picture of the connection between the characters of this book.