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Mrs Dalloway Character list and plot
-Clarrissa Dalloway: The eponymous protagonist, Clarissa is vivacious and cares a
great deal about what people think of her, but she is also self-reflective
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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
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Though he is insane, Septimus views English
society in much the same way as Clarissa does, and he struggles, as she does, to
both maintain his privacy and fulfill his need to communicate with others
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Septimus is pale, has a
hawklike posture, and wears a shabby overcoat
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After the war he regards human nature as evil and believes
he is guilty of not being able to feel
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-Peter Walsh: A close friend of Clarissa’s, once desperately in love with her
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He has not been to London for five years
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Often overcome with emotion, he cries easily
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He wears horn-rimmed glasses and a bow tie and used to be a Socialist
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Sally was a wild,
handsome ragamuffin who smoked cigars and would say anything
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Now Sally lives in Manchester
and is married with five boys
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-Richard Dalloway: Clarissa’s husband
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He is a
sportsman and likes being in the country
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While
devoted to social reform, he appreciates English tradition
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Hugh Whitbread: Clarissa’s old friend, married to Evelyn Whitbread
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He never brushes beneath the surface of any subject and is rather
vain
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He is, as Clarissa thinks, almost too perfectly dressed
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Lucrezia Smith (Rezia) - Septimus’s wife, a twenty-four-year-old hat-maker from
Milan
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Normally a lively and playful young woman, she has grown thin with worry
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She trims hats for the friends of her neighbor, Mrs
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Elizabeth Dalloway - Clarissa and Richard’s only child
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She has a dark beauty that is beginning to attract attention
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She spends a great
deal of time praying with her history teacher, the religious Miss Kilman, and is
considering career options
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Miss Kilman
has a history degree and was fired from a teaching job during the war because of
society’s anti-German prejudice
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She became a born-again
Christian two years and three months ago
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Sir William Bradshaw - A renowned London psychiatrist
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Holmes, recommends Sir
William
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” He determines that Septimus has suffered a complete
nervous breakdown and recommends that Septimus spend time in the country, apart

from Lucrezia
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Dr
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When Septimus begins to suffer the
delayed effects of shell shock, Lucrezia seeks his help
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Holmes claims nothing is
wrong with Septimus, but that Lucrezia should see Sir William if she doesn’t believe
him
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Holmes and refers to him as “human nature
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Holmes likes to go to the music hall and to play golf
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At sixty-two years old, Lady Bruton is devoted to promoting emigration to Canada for
English families
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She
has an assistant, Milly Brush, and a chow dog
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Miss Helena Parry (Aunt Helena) - Clarissa’s aunt
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A great botanist, she also enjoys
talking about orchids and Burma
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She has one glass eye
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Ellie, in her early fifties, has thin hair, a
meager profile, and bad eyesight
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She is self-effacing,
subject to chills, and close to a woman named Edith
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Evans - Septimus’s wartime officer and close friend
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During the war, Evans and Septimus were
inseparable
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Mrs
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Mrs
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She has honest
blue eyes and is Rezia’s only friend in London
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Peters, who
listens to the Smiths’ gramophone when they are not at home
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Filmer’s

granddaughter delivers the newspaper to the Smiths’ home each evening, and Rezia
always makes the child’s arrival into a momentous, joyous event
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Daisy is twenty-four years old and has two small children
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Evelyn Whitbread - Hugh Whitbread’s wife
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We learn about her
from others
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Mr
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Mr
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Mr
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Mr
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Jim Hutton - An awful poet at the Dalloways’ party
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Jim shares with Clarissa a love of Bach and
thinks she is “the best of the great ladies who took an interest in art
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Book covers one day in one woman’s life- from day to night- Clarissa Dalloway
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Clarissa returns from flower shopping, when her old friend Peter Walsh stops by to
her home unexpectedly
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He asks If she’s happy with
husband Richard, but her daughter Elizabeth enters the room and he leaves
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Point of view changes to Septimus, world war 1 veteran
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The point of view then shifts to Septimus, a veteran of

World War I who was injured in trench warfare and now suffers from shell shock
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They are waiting
for Septimus’s appointment with Sir William Bradshaw, a celebrated psychiatrist
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He
became numb to the horrors of war and its aftermath: when his friend Evans died, he
felt little sadness
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Suicidal, he
believes his lack of feeling is a crime
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However, Sir
William does not listen to what Septimus says and diagnoses “a lack of proportion
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Richard Dalloway eats lunch with Hugh Whitbread and Lady Bruton, members of
high society
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After lunch, Richard returns home to Clarissa with a large bunch of
roses
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Clarissa considers the void that exists between
people, even between husband and wife
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Clarissa sees off Elizabeth and her history
teacher, Miss Kilman, who are going shopping
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Meanwhile, Septimus and Lucrezia are in their apartment, enjoying a
moment of happiness together before the men come to take Septimus to the asylum
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Holmes, arrives, and Septimus fears the doctor will
destroy his soul
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Peter hears the ambulance go by to pick up Septimus’s body and marvels ironically
at the level of London’s civilization
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Clarissa works hard to make her party a
success but feels dissatisfied by her own role and acutely conscious of Peter’s

critical eye
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Though the social order is
undoubtedly changing, Elizabeth and the members of her generation will probably
repeat the errors of Clarissa’s generation
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Clarissa retreats to the privacy of a small room to consider Septimus’s
death
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She identifies with Septimus, admiring him for having
taken the plunge and for not compromising his soul
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The party nears its close as
guests begin to leave
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