“Why did she buy this clock, this hideous thing, with its square green face in a rectangular black Bakelite sarcophagus”
The inclusion of this clock is significant because in Mrs. Dalloway, the tolling of Big Ben is heard and it represents the uncontrollable passing of time. Mrs. Brown does not like her clock for reasons more profound than the fact that it is ugly. She does not want the time to be slipping away from her as it is, yet there is nothing she can do to stop it and the clock just makes it inevitable.
The inclusion of this clock is significant because in Mrs. Dalloway, the tolling of Big Ben is heard and it represents the uncontrollable passing of time. Mrs. Brown does not like her clock for reasons more profound than the fact that it is ugly. She does not want the time to be slipping away from her as it is, yet there is nothing she can do to stop it and the clock just makes it inevitable.
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