Clarissa and Septimus share the quality of expressing through actions, not words. Through these basic beliefs and idiosyncrasies, both characters mimic each other through their actions and thoughts, even though they never meet. Clarissa feels sadness and death around her. There is much routine and habit around her but she still seems dissatisfied. At her late age of fifty she sees herself as Mrs. Dalloway, not even Clarissa. She portrays her sense of happiness as something not monstrumental or graniose, but rather quite simple. She can be happy throwing a party, she can escape reality:

Every time she gave a party she had this feeling of being something not herself, and that everyone was unreal in one way; much more real in another.

...it was possible to say things you couldn't say anyhow else, things that needed an effort; possible to go much deeper.

their influence from their surrounding society. Many people don't understand what Septimus is going through, so they tend to think badly of him. The doctors he is under care from are far from helping and more intent on collecting for their service payment. Septimus is not even happy with himself, let alone his society. He had guilt because he could not feel anymore, not even for his wife. "His wife was crying, and he felt nothing; only each time she sobbed in this profound, this silent, this hopeless way, he descended another step into the pit" (Woolf 91). With Clarissa, the only influence of society on her are the parties she has. Though the parties bring happiness to her, after they are over it is back to her normal life that is stale. An important matter to Clarissa is to be social with important people. When her husband is invited to a brunch with Mrs. Bruton and she is not, she feels disappointed that she was not considered or not accepted by a wealthier person.

With Septimus, seeing his best friend Evans die at war has been a major trauma in his life. His wife Rezia must constantly take him away from his reality and have him focus on things not involving war or him thinking of it. Septimus sees beauty in small lifeless things that surroun

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