“Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you’ve made for yourself. You end up just sailing from port to port.” (Cunningham 97).
This quote is a direct link to Peter Walsh in Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Peter has too many loves, each trivial, each mortal. All end, and he moves on. He sails “from port to port” for love, and has no home, no place to settle down anymore. This is also a contrast, because this quality is not portrayed as a bad thing in Mrs. Dalloway, as it is here, in The Hours.
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hmmm... I'm not sure that Woolf doesn't share this concern about travel -- could it be more that Woolf is concerned with infidelity regarding one's true desires and dreams? About failure to commit to one's authentic path?
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