Virginia Woolf : "Mrs Dalloway said she'd. It the flowers herself."
Laura Brown (reading aloud): "Mrs Dalloway said she'd buy the flowers herself."
Clarissa Vaughn : "Sally, I think I'll buy the flowers myself."
This series of lines encapsulates the connection between all of the female characters as the fictional Clarissa goes out to buy flowers for a party, and the real-life Clarissa is also going out to buy flowers for a party. The fact that she is reading about Mrs Dalloway also sums up Laura's life at the time because she is not buying flowers herself but living vicariously through a fictional character.
I am ungrateful? You call ME ungrateful? My life has been stolen from me. I'm living in a town I have no wish to live in. I'm living a life I have no wish to live...how did this happen?
This is a very illuminating line in the film because it reveals so much. The first thing it tells us is that at the time of their marriage men were in total control of their wives when it came to it. Virginia didn't want to live in he suburbs but Leonard decided they were moving and that was that. He me choices were limited. She also has a great deal of anger because not only was she trapped in a plane that wasn't home and want where she wanted to be, she was being required to show gratitude for Leonard taking care of her. This is completely understandable because Leonard's idea of taking care of her was controlling her.
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
Virginia observes the irony of another's suicide; it always makes those left behind value what they have more and to appreciate the little things more as well. It also makes people reflective in a way that their day to day life generally doesn't. Her logic is that in a novel a character that commits suicide is one that teaches the book's readers to look at their own lives and live more fully.
