These phrases describe what Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf is about. In this novel, time is a major aspect because the linear progression of time is altered to the reader. We are taken to the past of characters like Clarissa, Peter, and Septimus, and are exposed to a world of loss, war, and death. Beside the fact that Woolf’s characters have a stream of consciousness, some also touch upon similar ideas. For example, both Clarissa and Septimus think about meaning of life and death. Clarissa wonders if she should take comfort in the fact that death ended everything while Septimus is driven to suicide because of his illness acquired from the war. The past is also a huge aspect of the novel because we see Clarissa and Peter “plunge” into old memories of when they were younger. These memories flow from one character to another, providing different perspectives. We see them remember certain characters whom they once had feelings for. For Clarissa, one person she remembers at one point is Sally for whom she might have been in love with her while Peter remembers being into Clarissa and being rejected by her, hence the loss of once upon a time love.