Virginia - Laura – Clarissa.

In the movie, Virginia Wolf is a woman that is looking for a way to escape of her reality, she is lost, captured, and she is afraid of the servants because they think that she is a conceited person and doesn’t want to eat their food. She lives between shadows, far away from people. Her intension is to create a good book, a book that is bigger than her self, leaving a part of her literary skills to the world.

Laura Brown (Julianne Moore): Wife and mother, she is pregnant, but she is a very depressive person and the only thing that she is trying to do is to kill herself, because she doesn’t know other way of sets herself apart from others. She feels that she change due to the war and she doesn’t want to stay with the childish dreams of being a good wife during all her life. Because of this, she is the principal reason of the traumas of her son (Richard). Who sensed the intentions of her mother and grows up with resentful feelings and passion for death.

Her purpose in the movie, was to create the perfect cake for the birthday of her husband, she is a perfectionist person trying to create something extraordinary, if we compare this attitude with Virginia’s, both are looking for magnanimity in things and the best way to make her ways to stand out of the normal.

Clarissa Vaughn (Meryl Stripp): She was the corrector of the new century, she has the same name of the main character (not the surname) and is the best friend of Richard (Laura’s son), she is a woman with a very oppressive past, which wasn’t bad at all, and it brings her very happy memories, but at the same time it brings her sadness, because in the present she doesn’t have that happiness and she feels that she needs it back, but she can’t. She had an affair with Richard in her youth, and although she likes women and has her “partner” (Sally), it is obvious that she was always in love with Richard, she takes care of him, and visit him constantly, is her soul mate.

Her purpose in the movie is to recover the feeling of happiness that in some part of her life she had.

-To take care of Richard

-Be a good model of mother to her daughter (Claire Danes)

-Organize in a successful way the party for Richard.

The role of these three women in the movie is to create an image of women during different periods of time in history. Showing their similar life’s, the way they live and the inconformity that the three girls feel due to the male oppression. Making notice of these with their tendency to lesbianism and the depressive neurosis.