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Call me Mary Beton, Mary Seton, Mary Carmichael or any other name you please—it is not a matter of importance.
This line comes from Chapter One, and
its enigmatic and elusive tone regarding the true identity of the
narrator is maintained throughout the text. Woolf and the narrator
both struggle with the same issues, but they are two distinct entities.
The narrator is a fictionalized character—an invention of Virginia
Woolf—and she remains vague about her true identity. In this quotation
she even instructs the reader to refer to her by different names.
This lack of one “true” identity for the narrator gives
