The Hours

by

Michael Cunningham

Flowers

Flowers are an important symbol in Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway, and in The Hours, which is modeled after Woolf’s novel, flowers symbolize the beauty of life, but also its shortness and…

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Cake

Laura Brown spends much of her day baking a cake for her husband, Dan, and this cake symbolizes Laura’s conflicting feelings about the many burdens that society obligates women to take on as wives…

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