The Fragmented Self and Spatial Relations: Good Morning, Midnight and Mrs. Dalloway

This article aims to analyze the fragmentation in the conception of self that arises from the conflict between individuality and society during the transitional era of modernity specifically in the works of Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. The ambiguities in Rhys’s protagonist Sasha Jensen’s and Woolf’s character Peter Walsh’s sense of belonging are investigated through the spaces they relate to and their social interactions. The relationship of these characters to certain social and private places are examined in order to reveal how the shift into the modern era provokes a conflict between the subjective sense of self and the social self, resulting in a fragmented concept of self, as well as how this conflict is reconciled by the individuals in the novels.