“A young man
had killed himself. He had been in the army. Oh! thought Clarissa, in the
middle of my party, here’s death, she thought (183).”
Woolf
demonstrates irony in this quote. Mrs. Dalloway is shocked at the news of
death, but not because someone has lost their life, because someone brought the
news to her party. The two characters have been completely indirectly related
the entire story as well, and then they are brought together in this ironic
meeting in the end of the story. Septimus is insignificant to Clarissa until he
is dead, and even then, he is only a nuisance.
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