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 Personally, I was very confused after watching The Hours for myself.  This confusion can probably be attributed to the chronological distortion of different stories merging together.  In a sense, from the first story, starring Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf, I can witness a deeper background to Mrs. Dalloway and how it relates to Woolf's personality and characteristics.  The idea of suicide is abundant throughout the movie, yet in the end Woolf is the only one to actually submit to this idea.   I think there can be some connections made between the 3 different women, but I also feel it is wrong to say that they are essentially personality clones of each other in different time frames.  Woolf in a way feels a lot more like Septimus in this sense, while the others who reflected and chose lightly felt a lot closer to the character of Mrs. Dalloway.  (In this case, Clarissa Vaughan who is played by Meryl Streep is actually called "Mrs. Dalloway" by ...

I'm going to have to be upfront with this one.  I'm not a very big fan of Hemingway's writing.  I generally have bad memories writing essays on it and have a hard time reading in between the lines of what he says.  Regardless, this blog post is my interpretation of some of themes he chooses to use throughout his book, specifically drinking. It is an undeniable truth that people in the 1920s drank heavily, but I think Hemingway chooses an exceptional amount of detail that he devotes to drinking alcohol especially.  "Pernod is greenish imitation absinthe. When you add water it turns milky. It tastes like licorice and it has a good uplift, but it drops you just as far. We sat and drank it, and the girl looked sullen."   Pernod Absinthe as I've researched is actually the very first French Absinthe made in the local distillery. It's funny how Jake calls it "imitation absinthe" almost just insulting it as a whole, and even a little tone of racism.  Gen...