London as setting for "Mrs. Dalloway"

''When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.'' --Samuel Johnson
In "Mrs. Dalloway", Virginia Woolf uses the setting of the city of London to effectively show the vastly different emotional responses of the characters. The city of London, in June, is the primary location in which three of the novel's characters are placed; although they inhabit the same period of time, they display completely different responses. The protagonist, Clarissa Dalloway, enjoys the experience from her position of privilege and comfort. Septimus Warren Smit…