I always thought of love triangles as something more modern, but I guess that’s because I mostly read more modern literature. In Mrs. Dalloway, I almost feel like Richard and Peter have become kind of like Peeta and Gale in the Hunger Games series, or Edward and Jacob in the Twilight series. Not to the same extent as the aforementioned examples, but I feel like there has been a love triangle here the whole time.

Clarissa herself may have been in love with Richard at one point, especially when she was younger and they decided to get married, but at the end, I’m still unsure of her feelings for him. I do feel, though, that she still has some kind of feelings for him, but also for Peter.

Richard seems to still have feelings for his wife because he wants to tell her he loves her. From his thoughts and from everyone else’s thoughts, he’s a good, upstanding guy who is trying his best to take care of his family. He just doesn’t really know how to handle his feelings.

Then there’s Peter. At the end, especially with the last two lines, I am almost completely sure that he still loves Clarissa (even though he mentions, just a couple of pages before, that you can’t fall in love twice). But he talks about this “extraordinary excitement” and that Clarissa is the source of it.

Although I’m sure there’s a love triangle, I’m still unsure of where it all will lead at the end of the book. I can’t see Clarissa and Richard getting divorced because there doesn’t seem to be a reason for it. But at the same time, Peter is back in London so he can get a divorce, and he has been thinking about Clarissa almost since the moment he got back. For the sake of upholding marriage, I would have to conclude that I am Team Richard, because why not be? (And because Peter doesn’t really know what he’s doing or wants in life.)

Honestly, I don’t like to write about love triangles, but they are interesting to read about. But I would never want one in my own life (fortunately, I’m already married so crisis averted).

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