The document provides descriptions of several characters in Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway: Clarissa Dalloway is the vivacious host of a party who cares about others and questions life's deeper meanings. Septimus Smith is a shell-shocked WWI veteran who struggles with insanity and privacy versus communication. Peter Walsh was once in love with Clarissa and is highly emotional and critical. Richard Dalloway is Clarissa's conservative husband who values English traditions.

1. The Characters of

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.