How does Virginia Woolf deplore canonic conventions in 'Mrs Dalloway' through the characters of Elizabeth and Clarissa Dalloway?

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Elizabeth represents the women at the peak of their physicality, sexuality and prospects as she is a blossoming flower, a “hyacinth that has had no sun” as she “blooms” and transgresses into sexual maturity and fruition, as she represents potentiality and a new “beginning”. Clarissa’s constant attention to the passing of time is symbolic of her fear and awareness regarding the ‘female clock’ and the temporary stage of fruition and freedom prior to marriage. The “leaden circles” of Big Ben dissolving in the air, act as Whitaker notes, as “drawing attention to the theme of the radiation of power” therefore it is the State’s time patriarchally dictating Clarissa’s and the female clock, further highlighting the power disparity between the two sexes, and the power of the State. Meanwhile, Elizabeth “ventures” into a space where “no Dalloways go” and she “steps forward” and “board{s} the omnibus”, envisioning not her marriage but her career. This act allows Woolf to highlight her movement into her own future, as she imagines herseld as a “doctor or farmer” or a member of parliament. As she sits “like the figure-head of a ship…having no eyes to meet, gaz{ing} ahead” she is depicted with the scope of the sea as her wide life prospects; symbolic of the bounty she is carrying. As … writes, by boarding the bus she “escapes both the identity and the destiny patriachal culture would impose upon her” as she is capable of getting off at any stop – she posesses a freedom which Clarissa yearns for but has lost within marriage. Elizabeth consequentially loses track of time as she comes to realise “what was the time? Where was the clock?” thus proving her position affords her this freedom and abandonment of patriacrhal dictation which is intrexibaly linked with marriage. By giving such poignancy and relevance to even the fractures subplot of Elizabeth’s narrative, Woolf continues to rupture canonic literary conventions and strictures, subverting her claim that “for most of history, anonymous was a woman”.