Mrs. Dalloway (pgs. 63-136)

Mrs. Dalloway: page 63-136

• Peter disgusted by Clarissa who he sees as cold
• Mr. Dalloway has brought her a balance to her emotional hysterics
• Peter’s departure is followed by Lucrezia Septimus asking “why should I suffer...no I can’t stand it anymore (pg. 63)
• parallels with Peter leaving Clarissa, a really painful and emotional visit
• At first she tries not to feel guilty for losing Septimus but it becomes for painful than leaving him and not taking him to Dr. Bradshaw
• Peter passes by thinking that is being young, having a fight in the middle of the morning.
• parallels to Peter’s young love for Clarissa
• pg. 71 Hugh Whitebread: Clarissa and Peter detest his haughtiness and selfishness
• “He thought of nothing but his own appearances.”
• “Sally was able to see through all of that
• Shakespeare (pg. 73): “How could she let me hold forth about Shakespeare”
• Connects to Septimus who went into the war when England was Shakespeare. Septimus read and enjoyed Shakespeare.
• Contrasts Clarissa and Septimuspg. 78: Peter feels free after leaving Clarissa
• pg. 81 “Here is a man who holds the greatest message in the world….the happiest man and the most miserable”
• “Something hesitating in the man’s walk.”
• septimus has hesitations toward the world and going to Dr. Bradshaw
• pg. 91: “Evans was speaking. The dead were with him.”
• Septimus said he felt nothing when Evans died.
• Marrying Rezia was to subdue his fear of not having felt emotions at that death.
• LITERATURE REFERENCES
• Shakespeare (pg. 73): “How could she let me hold forth about Shakespeare”
• Connects to Septimus who went into the war when England was Shakespeare. Septimus read and enjoyed Shakespeare.
• Contrasts Clarissa and Septimuspg. 78: Peter feels free after leaving Clarissa
• pg. 83: Literature references: Antony & Cleopatra, Shakespeare, Darwin, The History of Civilisation, Bernard Shaw
• pg 84: When Septimus went to war he was trying to save an England that consisted of Shakespeare’s plays.
• pg. 86: “Here he opened
• Septimus’s literary ideas, shows how Septimus engages in deeper thought and literature like Richard and unlike Clarissa. Did something meaningful for England.
• Irony that Clarissa is a “normal” society member, and Septimus suffers from PTSD.

• pg. 88 ““Dr. Holmes examined him. There was nothing whatever the matter said Dr. Holmes. Oh, what a relief! What a kind man, what a good man! Thought Rezia”
• Don’t understand PTSD at that time
• No real relief because he continues acting that way
• No cure or help really given
• pg. 119: “After that, how unbelievable death was!-that it must end; and no one in the whole world would know that she had loved it all; how, every instant…”

• pg. 122: Miss Kilman thinks Clarissa is a fool and simpleton, she pities her.
• Thinks she has never known sorrow nor pleasure
• Irony of thinking that you know someone from surface interactions
• Secretly desires to be like Clarissa
• Clarissa's parties: away from all of society, sort of a free for all which she loves
• says she has parties because she loves life and its an offering