Each character is distinct, yet together they compose a gestalt about a silent central consciousness. As the six characters or "voices" alternately speak, Woolf explores concepts of individuality, self, and community. The monologues that span the characters' lives are broken up by nine brief third-person interludes detailing a coastal scene at varying stages in a day from sunrise to sunset. Also important is Percival, the seventh character, though readers never hear him speak through his own voice. It consists of soliloquies spoken by the book's six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis.
The book is Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel, first published in 1931.
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