Discussion Question 2 **SPOILERS**

2. Woolf saw Septimus Warren Smith as an essential counterpoint to Clarissa Dalloway. What specific comparisons and contrasts are drawn between the two? What primary images are associated, respectively, with Clarissa and with Septimus? What is the significance of Septimus making his first appearance as Clarissa, from her florist's window, watches the mysterious motor car in Bond Street?

Richard - you are not supposed to make me think this hard ;-)
Hummm..... I need to think about this abit.

Now Laurie! Mustn't shirk!

;-)

If it's too much like homework, skip it!

Consider skipped ;-}

Oh dear, I misspelled your name in that post and I *know* better Lori! I'm sorry!

I don't know if I caught all that I was supposed to in this first time reading of this book, but I have to say that putting both Clarissa and Septimus in the same book was a surprise to me. Poor Septimus who is so affected by the war and although he has a wife who wants to make a life with him, he contemplates ending it all. And then Clarissa, who seems preoccupied with the trivial things in life like buying flowers and mending a dress, has such an unusual reaction when she hears of the death.
--BJ

I get more of a sense of their commonality than their antithesis, myownself. I think Septimus is Clarissa without money! (And male, of course.)