She is a woman that used to live in luxury, but is also a close woman who didn't shows her emotion to everyone. For this reason Clarissa seems to be superficial and also she want to live in the present, but she is obsessed to her past. She desire the death in every single moment of her daily life, as for example when Clarissa go to buy some flowers, she repeats the same Shakespeare's phrase about death in her mind. She questions for all the novel about her choice to marry a simple man as Richard, instead the man of her life Peter, but she understand the truth at the end of the story.
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