Jasmine Estevez

Woolf has constructed Mrs. Dalloway to show how the characters in the novel are interconnected. We can see it starting off with Clarissa and Peter Walsh.  At the very beginning of the novel Clarissa was about to head out to buy some flowers when she starts thinking about Peter. We are all interconnected with someone because we can hear see or even experience a new adventure and still be reminded of that one person. “Musing among the vegetables?” – was that it? – “I prefer men to cauliflowers” – was that it? He must have said it at breakfast one morning when she had gone out on the terrace – Peter Walsh. Here we can see how Clarissa about to leave for flowers suddenly remembers about Peter. Clarissa then ends up bumping into Hugh and while conversing she still remembers Peter. “She could remember scene after scene at Bourton – Peter furious; Hugh not, of course, his match in any way, but still not a positive imbecile as Peter made out; not a mere barber’s block.” It seems like any little scene or person she saw reminded her of Peter and the memories they had.

We then see this interconnection with Clarissa and Septimus. They are two different people who happen to have a lot in common. When being described they are said to have a bird like face. Also their views on life are very similar. They enjoy the beautiful things in life and when the accident happened they were both there very intrigued to what was going on. Clarissa and Septimus think about death in which they have no fear of. Clarissa thinks about her own death while Septimus about Evans. Although at the scene of the accident he happened to say “I will kill myself”.

In this novel everyone seems to be interconnected with Clarissa somehow.