Pleasure Reading Virginia Woolf "Mrs. Dalloway" Summary 3

Peter Walsh is walking along the embankment and thinks about his meeting with Clarissa. He noticed changes in her behavior but still he cannot stop loving her. Though now he lives with another woman he is ready to leave her if Clarissa asks him. He recalls a fateful meeting of Clarissa with Richard and how she refused to marry him.

In the park Peter is attracted by a married couple. That is the Warren Smiths. Lucrezia takes her husband to mr. Bradshaw, a doctor. On their way to him Septimus sees a ghost of his friend Evans who died in the war. The doctor offers Septimus to go to hospital but he and Lucrezia are absolutely against it.

Later another doctor examines Septimus. The couple discredits him but he keeps visiting Septimus. For a while the veteran feels better and has lucidity. But the next doctor’s visit makes him commit suicide by jumping out of a window.