“But there are tides in the body (113).”
Richard Dalloway has made the simple decision to join Hugh Whitbread in a shop, even though it was the last thing he wanted to do. Why did he do it? Because he went with the tide of the day, because as Virginia Woolf says, “there are tides in the body”. Here, Woolf is using this simple and nondramatic decision to say something about people in general. Just like the ocean tide, people experience uncontrollable changes that occur throughout the day and throughout their lives. These changes, or tides, pull a person from one side to another, against their will, just as Richard Dalloway is going with the flow of his tide. If one doesn’t go with the flow, they will sink. And clearly Richard has mastered the art of not sinking.
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