Role in Women

Many female characters (Clarissa Dalloway, Lady Millicent Burton, Sally Seton, Doris Kilman, Lucrezia Smith, etc.) in various stages of life and from various classes occupy the pages of Woolf’s novel. How do these characters reflect the prescribed and changing roles of women in the 1920s? What is Woolf’s purpose for including this range of women? How does the depiction of these different female characters work to support the theme(s) in Woolf’s novel?