Cunningham draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, life and death, creation and destruction. The novel moves along three separate but parallel stories, each focusing on the experiences of a particular woman during the course of one apparently unremarkable but in fact pivotal day.
Write a comparison contrast character analysis of each of these women. Show what they share, what they don’t share. Show how each character helps us understand the others. Finally, link all of this to a common “theme” being explored in the novel.
