... . These struggles often occur between characters, but predominantly they occur between the characters and their emotions or other structures of power. In The Hours (film) and the novel, something that Virginia Woolf, Laura Brown and Clarissa Vaughan have in common is their feeling of failure, depression and inadequacy. Each woman feels trapped within her own life. The reasons for each woman's feeling ... reading calmly to her child; she wants to be a wife who sets a perfect table" Clarissa Vaughan does not experience depression and feelings of being trapped to the same extent as Virginia...

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