《达洛卫夫人》描写了一位议员夫人一天的活动过程。全书以主人公为核心，以她的生日晚宴为枢纽，突出地塑造了两个截然不同的典型：代表上流社会及习惯势力的"大医师"布雷德肖和平民出生的史密斯；同时对当时英国社会的上层阶级中形形式式的人物做了入木三分的刻画，让读者领略到典型意识流小说的各种特色，并以其"一天写尽一个女人的一生"的艺术功力，淋漓尽致地展现了这部作品的独特性，同时还告诉人们，意识流小说并非仅仅是艺术技巧的创新，它们也可以具有深刻的思想性和社会意义。(Mrs. Dalloway describes the one-day activity process of a Senator's wife. The book takes the leading character as the core, takes her birthday party as the hub, highlights and shapes two distinct typical representatives: Bradshaw representing the upper class and the force of habit and Smith, a man of the people; moreover, this book also makes a profound description of various characters of the upper class in the British society at the time, makes readers appreciate the various characteristics of novels of stream of consciousness and incisively and vividly shows the uniqueness of the work with her artistic skills of "Using One Day to Write the Whole Life of a Woman". Moreover, it also tells people that novels of stream of consciousness not only are innovation of artistic skills of novels, but also can have profound ideological content and social significance.)