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Mrs Dalloway

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Mrs Dalloway

Characters
- Septimus Smith
  - Represents the horrors of WWI
  - Obsession with dead Evans
  - Fails to sleep with Lucrezia - Homoerotic?
  - Rejects the modern world as a sham
  - Throws himself into the public sphere
- Mrs Clarissa Dalloway
  - In love with Sally Seton
  - Treats the death of Septimus as a beautiful act
  - Hosts parties as a way of giving people pleasure
- Sir William Bradshaw
  - Believes Septimus is failing to live in 'proportion'
  - Brashaw - The Victorian Railway Guide. Reliability. Authority.
  - Shouts "The Coward!" as Septimus jumps to his death.
- Peter Walsh
  - Returns to London to obtain divorce for Indian lover
  - Old love interest of Clarissa
  - Amazed by the modern London, although fails to fit in
Themes
- Technology & Modernity (Omnibus, Ambulance, Car)
- Rejection of the modern public sphere
- Women & Sexuality - Miss Dalloway as the new Modern woman (Omnibus escape)
- The Imperial Flaneur - Peter Walsh. Attempts to recolonize London