Early 20th century author Virginia Woolf was fixated on ideas of philosophy and time. Woolf believed that people were only here for a short time. He also believed that everyone's life was made up of moments. Those moments could be expanded or passed; once a moment passes, then it is gone forever. When a moment is expanded, it means that the moment appears to be more than just a second. That moment has a special meaning or event. Woolf often incorporated these ideas about the temporality of time into her works; it is most evident in her novel, Mrs. Dalloway. Mrs Dalloway was written in 1925, about seven years after the end of the First World War. In the novel, time plays an important factor for the many Dalloways. Kate Haffey wrote a beautiful article titled “Exquisite Moments and the Temporality of Kissing in Mrs. Dalloway AND The Hours,” in which she discusses the temporality of time and the kiss between Clarissa and Sally. According to Haffey, "[T]he kiss between Clarissa and Sally [is] a moment that temporarily interrupts her inevitable movement toward marriage and reproduction" (137); the kiss is not only an expanded moment in the novel, but can be expanded beyond. Just like Edwards said about lesbianism not being widely known at the time, this kiss moves away from that idea of ​​marriage and children. This idea makes the moment expansive. Haffey further states, "[The kiss] seems to disrupt or interrupt the flow of time in the narrative" (138). Haffey is saying that the moment the kiss happens, everything seems to stop for a second. The flow of the story breaks down and the reader may wonder what is happening. The kiss turns into one of those moments that last more than just a second. One final thing Haffey mentions is that “the kiss, as constructed in Woolf's text, offers strange and unpredictable forms of temporality” (138). Not only does the kiss interrupt the flow of the narrative, as previously mentioned by Haffey, but it leaves the reader wondering where the story will end. This moment alone is very telling when it comes to many of his characters, including Clarissa, living by the clock. The narrator states, “[Clarissa] has to go home. He has to get dressed for dinner. But what time was it? Where was the watch?” (Woolf 2408). Clarissa lives by the clock. It is evident in the first part of the story when Big Ben hits and scares her, even though she expects it and needs a clock at the end of the story. This example connects to that idea of ​​short time that Woolf believed in. Time on earth is short and it continues to pass whether anyone wants it or not. Woolf was showing her audience how she sees people who live by the clock and let the clock dictate their