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Clarissa’s husband. A member of Parliament in the Conservative government, Richard plans to write a history of the great English military family, the Brutons, when the Labour Party comes to power. He is a sportsman and likes being in the country. He is a loving father and husband. While devoted to social reform, he appreciates English tradition. He has failed to make it into the Cabinet, or main governing body.

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A close friend of Clarissa and Peter in their youth. Sally was a wild, handsome ragamuffin who smoked cigars and would say anything. She and Clarissa were sexually attracted to one another as teenagers. Now Sally lives in Manchester and is married with five boys. Her married name is Lady Rosseter.

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A close friend of Clarissa’s, once desperately in love with her. Clarissa rejected Peter's marriage proposal when she was eighteen, and he moved to India. He has not been to London for five years. He is highly critical of others, is conflicted about nearly everything in his life, and has a habit of playing with his pocketknife. Often overcome with emotion, he cries easily. He frequently has romantic problems with women and is currently in love with Daisy, a married woman in India.

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A World War I veteran suffering from shell shock, married to an Italian woman named Lucrezia. Though he is insane, Septimus views English society in much the same way as Clarissa does, and he struggles, as she does, to both maintain his privacy and fulfill his need to communicate with others. He shares so many traits with Clarissa that he could be her double. Septimus is pale, has a hawklike posture, and wears a shabby overcoat. Before the war he was a young, idealistic, aspiring poet.

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The eponymous protagonist. The novel begins with Clarissa’s point of view and follows her perspective more closely than that of any other character. As Clarissa prepares for the party she will give that evening, we are privy to her meandering thoughts. Clarissa is vivacious and cares a great deal about what people think of her, but she is also self-reflective. She often questions life’s true meaning, wondering whether happiness is truly possible. She feels both a great joy and a great dread about her life, both of which manifest in her struggles to strike a balance between her desire for privacy and her need to communicate with others.

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The novel explores the theme of mental health, focusing on

the characters' struggles with mental

illness. It also examines the social stigma

surrounding mental illness and the

challenges that individuals with mental

illness face in society.

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The novel explores the role of memory in shaping the characters'

identities. It also examines how memories, both positive and negative,

shape our perceptions of ourselves and others.

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The novel explores the passage of time and how it affects the characters' lives. It also explores the relationship between past, present and future, and how they influence the

characters' experiences.

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The day of Clarissa Dalloway and other characters that cross her path. It starts at 10 in the morning of June 1923, and she's heading to Bond Street to buy flowers for a party that she's having. There she is caught by memories of her childhood.

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Suddenly a noise catches her attention, and outside of the store's window she sees a man (who she doesn't know), Septimus Smith, a traumatized war survivor, with his wife.
Clarissa, once home, receives the visit of Peter Walsh, who she refused years before to be with Richard Dalloway, her richer husband.

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Walsh then sees Septimus again with his wife, when they are going to his psychiatrist. Smith after that very session will kill himself.
In the end, during Clarissa's party, the information of Septimus suicide comes to her, and even though she didn't know him, she'll feel bad for him.

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Though much of the novel’s action consists of preparations for a seemingly frivolous party, death is a constant undercurrent to the characters’ thoughts and actions. The obvious example of this is Septimus, who suffers from mental illness and ends up killing himself.