Dalloway, abandons her family in order to survive--a move that is never to be forgiven by her son, whose imminent death by AIDS seems an implicit punishment for his mother's choice; and the contemporary Clarissa, who has all the trappings of liberation--a powerful editing job, a gorgeous Manhattan brownstone, a supportive lesbian partner, and an intelligent, healthy daughter emotionally abandons her life and disprizes the women in it so that she can care for the gay poet who, after leaving her thirty years before, openly fails to return her regard.
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