In Mrs. Dalloway, Peter Walsh has a prominent quote at the very end of the story that sums up Clarissa's identity: "It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was." (Woolf 182). Throughout the entire novel, as readers, we are following Clarissa's story as she unravels who she truly is and why she does what she does. In this moment, Peter doesn't see Clarissa as just a person, but a smorgasbord of her past, essence, and role in society. "For there she was" suggests Peter can see Clarissa for who she is, authentically, something she herself thought was lost.
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