2. Vivacious
Cares about other’s thoughts
Questions life, happiness
Both happy and sad
Balance wants privacy & communication
Wants to find out deeper meanings
Ups and downs past and present
Questions her decisions
Suicidal tendencies, but endure to live
Represents “sane truth”.
3. WWI veteran, shellshocked
Insane, also struggles
Privacy vs communication
Similar to Clarissa
Poet before the war
After the war, thinks mankind is evil
Represents “insane truth”
Troubles represent the legitimacy of English
values
His suicide helps Clarissa accept her life
4. Friend of Clarissa
Once in love with her (mutual)
Highly critical and conflicted, emotional
Cannot make decisions about his life, his
feelings
Blames Richard for making Clarissa an upper-
class lady
5. Friend of Clarissa and Peter
Outspoken, rebellious
Was sexually attracted to Clarissa (mutual)
Married now
More distant to “upper class” than Clarissa
6. Clarissa’s husband
MP – Conservative
Sportsman, loving father and husband
Appreciates English traditions
Built a stable life for Clarissa
Shy – cannot say he loves her
Thinks England joined war to keep traditions
7. Elizabeth Dalloway Seventeen years old; the
daughter of Clarissa and Richard Dalloway.
Lucy Maid in the Dalloway house.
Scrope Purvis Neighbor of the Dalloways.
Hugh Whitbread Old acquaintance of
Richard and Clarissa; has a minor position at
Court.
Evelyn Whitbread Sickly wife of Hugh
Whitbread.
8. Doris Kilman Tutor to Elizabeth Dalloway.
Lucrezia Warren Smith Young Italian wife of
Septimus.
Justin Parry Clarissa's father.
Helena Parry Clarissa's aunt.
Isabel Pole Septimus' first love.
Evans Sturdy, red-haired comrade of Septimus;
killed in Italy shortly before the Armistice.
Daisy Twenty-four years old; plans to marry
PeterWalsh; has two children.