"Stream of consciousness" is a technique deployed by modernist writers like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, which is believed to authentically document mental process or capture "the atmosphere of the spirit ". This technique is used to explore the inner reality or psychic being of the characters. Virginia Woolf uses this technique in her novel Mrs. Dalloway. For Woolf, “life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope which surrounds us from the beginning to the end of consciousness”. As a novelist, she wanted to "record the atoms as they fall upon the mind...to trace a pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, as each sight or incident marks upon that consciousness." Woolf's writing of Mrs. Dalloway is a form that breaks with the contemporary form that she vilified for failing to do justice to life and character. What she seems to defend is a representation of the life of the mind, in all its vagaries, particularities and indeterminations, in all its complexity and in its fullness. She stressed the need to move from public to private, from social to introspective, from political to individual. (The politicians and audiences who enter his writings do so only through individual psyches). Woolf's real subject in the text is consciousness, attention, action and reaction, what we remember, what we say and what we keep hidden, the distance between inside and outside , the way we appear differently to ourselves and to others. What she wants is what EM Foster told her when praising Jacob's Room, "to go deeper into the soul." Woolf celebrated the depiction of the “inner life” and attempted to capture in lucid prose the limitless flow of thought; and so she considered the non-...... middle of paper...... and scrutinizing the text, the inner thoughts of consciousness have no control over the actions of the characters, consciousness never interferes with external actions. Additionally, despite multiple focalization (i.e., insight into the minds of other characters, their fears, insecurities, anxieties, and elation), Woolf never favors any particular perspective or impression over to the other; for example, Clarissa and Miss Kilman might criticize each other, which does not seem to happen. Thus we can see that the workings of consciousness, rather than what consciousness can change or cause it to do, is the concern of the text. Through stream of consciousness, Woolf gives readers multiple perspectives without making definitive statements, without escaping commitment to a class or section, without constructing any sort of hierarchy..