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\nThis lesson will give you an overall plot summary of Mrs Dalloway. Watch as Clarissa obsessively and meticulously plans a beautiful party for all her glittering, upper class guests. But she has a nagging sense that this might all be...\nThis lesson will give you an overall plot summary of Mrs Dalloway. Watch as Clarissa obsessively and meticulously plans a beautiful party for all her glittering, upper class guests. But she has a nagging sense that this might all be meaningless. In fact, Clarissa questions all her major life decisions, including her marriage to Richard. Should she have married Peter Walsh instead? And whatever happened to Clarissa’s first true love, Sally Seton? In another part of London, Septimus and Lucrezia Warren Smith are plunged into a crisis. With Septimus slipping further into madness, Lucrezia struggles to maintain hope. So, they turn to doctors out of desperation. But could seeking treatment for Septimus’ shellshock do more harm than good?
Watch our plot summary of Mrs Dalloway to find out what happens.
Note: As Mrs Dalloway does not have traditional chapters, we have divided the novel into 14 ‘Sections’. Following the Penguin Classics version of the novel (ISBN 9780141182490), the Sections are as follows:
Section 1: pp. 3-14 (‘Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.’ – ‘…those tyres of motor cars, were all her fault.’)
Section 2: pp. 14-31 (‘The violent explosion…’ – ‘…writing a T, an O, and F.’)
Section 3: pp. 31-52 (‘What are they looking at?’ – ‘…Peter Walsh shut the door.’)
Section 4: pp. 52-70 (‘Remember my party, remember my party…’ – ‘He never saw her again.’)
Section 5: pp. 71-77 (‘It was awful, he cried…’ – ‘…the quarter struck – the quarter to twelve.’)
Section 6: pp. 77-90 (‘And that is being young…’ – ‘…foo swee too eem oo.’)
Section 7: pp. 90-103 (‘Poor old woman…’ – ‘…Dr Holmes, looking not quite so kind.’)
Section 8: pp. 103-112 (‘It was precisely twelve o’clock…’ – ‘…she did not like that man.’
Section 9: pp. 112-128 (‘Shredding and slicing…’ – ‘…he thought, approaching his door.’)
Section 10: pp. 128-135 (‘The sound of Big Ben flooded…’ – ‘…in her mackintosh, listening to whatever they said.’)
Section 11: pp. 135-152 (‘Yes, Miss Kilman stood on the landing…’ – ‘…mounted the Westminster omnibus.’)
Section 12: pp. 152-165 (‘Going and coming, beckoning, signalling…’ – ‘So that was Dr. Holmes.’)
Section 13: pp. 165-180 (‘One of the triumphs of civilisation…’ – ‘He opened the big blade of his pocket-knife.’)
Section 14: pp. 181-213 end (‘Lucy came running full tilt downstairs…’ – ‘For there she was.’)\n
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