There are a lot of relations between the characters in Mrs. Dalloway’s one day and her reflections, though not all are as directly related. Septimus for example is connected to Mrs. Dalloway because of many psychological aspects of their personalities. While Septimus is a war veteran and because of that is paranoid, depressed, and generally what society might call crazy, Mrs Dalloway is not any of those things. But both represent in their thoughts or actions the wrongness of society’s outlook on war and the treatment of the men who came back from it alive, the lack of an attempt to understand mental illnesses. Both suffer through depression and both are misunderstood by the world. Mrs Dalloway is seen as a cold distant women when she is in fact not.

Sally is connected to Dalloway as a childhood ‘Friend’, with perhaps all of the hidden implications that the quotations may imply. They felt very personal and passionate emotions for one another, crossing nearly into a category one might reserve for lovers, a place that it seems no one else truly entered again with Clarissa Dalloway.

Richard Dalloway, or Mr. Dalloway is Clarissa’s husband… though that relationship lacks any of the same passion that Sally offered. The two of them are close but at the same time cold and off-standish, Mr. Dalloway is a conservative man who never expresses affection properly, and Clarissa is as mentioned before seen as a cold woman, who refuses sex with her husband.

Lastly Peter Walsh, an… acquaintance of Clarissa’s who is smitten for her. He come back from India and immediately goes to Clarissa to discuss with her an array of things, but mainly ends up displaying his emotions for her. He loves Clarissa and is torn by the fact that she is already married to Richard. An unrequited love.