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Mrs. Dalloway (THE PLOT (Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class housewife, goes…
Mrs. Dalloway
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THE PLOT
Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class housewife, goes around London in the morning, getting ready to host a party that evening.
An old suitor and friend, Peter Walsh, drops by her house unexpectedly. Years earlier, Clarissa refused Peter’s marriage proposal, and she married the reliable Richard Dalloway.
The point of view shifts to Septimus, a veteran of World War I who now suffers from shell shock. He spends his day in the park with his Italian-born wife Lucrezia. They are waiting for Septimus’s appointment with Sir William Bradshaw, a psychiatrist.
Sir William plans to send him to a mental institution in the country, so Septimus commits suicide by jumping out of a window.
Clarissa's party in the evening is a slow success. It is attended also by people from her past like Peter and her close female friend, Sally Seton.
She hears about Septimus' suicide at the party and gradually comes to admire this stranger's act, with which she feels a strong connection.
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The Threat of Oppression
Septimus dies to escape what he perceives to be an oppressive social pressure to conform (religion, science, or social convention.)
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She worries about what people think of her, but she is also self-reflective and she often questions life’s true meaning. She feels both a great joy and a great dread about her life, both of which manifest in her struggles to strike a balance between her desire for privacy and her need to communicate with others.
He is a veteran of World War I who now suffers from shell shock. Before the war he was a young aspiring poet. After the war he regards human nature as evil and believes he is guilty of not being able to feel.
A close friend of Clarissa’s, highly critical of others and once desperately in love with her. He is a traveler and currently in love with Daisy, a married woman in India.
A wild ragamuffin. She and Clarissa were sexually attracted to one another as teenagers. Now Sally is married and has five boys.
Clarissa's practical, "simple" husband, who feels disconnected from his wife. He is immersed in his work in government.
