The novel The Hours by Michael Cunningham is an outstanding example of the modernist writing as well as one of the most prominent books of the modern time. It can be praised in terms of the use of a well-developed technique of narration called stream-of-consciousness as well as the deep depiction of the problematic moments. Nevertheless, one of the strongest points of the text of this novel is its depiction of the LGTB issue in the context of different times and parallel lives of the women whose destiny seems to come as a result of a cycle.
The main issue depicted in the novel concerns the women who are depicted as lesbian or rather bisexual apart of other sexual orientations. Peculiar is that the sexual preferences sometimes even tend to change with the flow of the character's life. In connection to the society, this aspect of the novel provides the reader with a chance to think over the challenges that the LGBT representatives tend to face in our society as well as over the possibility of self-recognition and self-realization. Those processes related to personal exploration always happen within the society and are strongly dependent on the main principles of its functioning. Based on this, the novel reflects on how the three generations of women were
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Virginia Woolf, whose presence in the book is essential, was said to stay in relationships with women. Laura Brown, belonging to the later time, was pictured kissing Kitty; and Clarissa Vaughan, even though she was previously Richard's lover, stays at the time in a relationship with Sally. In addition, Richard is a gay man who dies of AIDS. The range of the characters in the novel who are related to the LGBT makes the gender and sexuality politics a central issue in the novel. In some understanding, the novel as a whole examines how the three women are perceived throughout various times and by different