So as I finished Mrs. Dalloway I had one burning question: Why is Septimus and Rezia in this story at all? Everyone else seems to have a fair connection to Mrs. Dalloway except for these two. The only way in which their stories overlap at all is when Sir William Bradshaw mentions that Septimus had killed himself at her party.

I realize that the fact that Bradshaw shares this rather sordid fact really perturbs her but that’s about it. So why was so much of this book dedicated to Septimus and Rezia’s story. I guess while we’re at it we could even ask why it isn’t called Mr. Walsh since so much of the story revolves around Peter and his inability to deal with the memory of his past affections for Clarissa.

I guess I really should have titled this blog post, “Why Mrs. Dalloway?” It’s her story but at the same time it isn’t at all. Honestly this book had me asking a lot of questions about the intentions of the author. In the end I feel like that was the author’s intent. Not to give answers but questions. Give you just enough details to get a taste for each character but to really make you make your own conclusions about them–and then to doubt those conclusions.

All in all I think that it was effective.

source: giphy.com