Clarissa Dalloway
Hostess whose gift is connection, and whose cost is a narrowed life.
Modernism · Novel · 1925
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Clarissa prepares a party while Septimus, a shell-shocked veteran, walks the same London. One June day holds two kinds of survival.
Stream of consciousness
Characters
Septimus Warren Smith
The war’s leftover prophet, double to Clarissa’s composure.
Peter Walsh
Returned lover who keeps the past in motion through the streets.
Themes
Time
Big Ben cuts a day into public hours while minds wander years.
War’s afterlife
The party and the suicide share a city and a novel.