“She has failed, and now the voices are back, muttering indistinctly just beyond the range of her vision, behind her, here, no turn and they’ve gone somewhere else” (4).
At this early point in the prologue, the subject is unnamed, but it is clear that the character hearing voices is Virginia Woolf, the author of the novel The Hours is based on. In real life, Woolf suffered from mental insanity and attempted to commit suicide by drowning herself in a river. Michael Cunningham created an accurate character based on Virginia Woolf.
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