Both aspects have a mind of their own when it comes to the story involved in Mrs. Dalloway. In this story, Clarissa is the type of person that throws parties to draw people towards her. In a way, a gravitation from other people to escape the surroundings around her life outside the party life. Towards the end of the story, Clarissa celebrates the old woman’s independence but it signifies the loneliness that is yet to come slowly but surely. Also, Peter tries to explain to controversy of human impulses when it comes to privacy and communication by comparing the soul of a fish while swimming along the murky water. Why is that? Why would Peter try to compare the two? To me, the comparison of the two makes it apparent that he is trying to connect the two concepts of what English society should be and what the traditional English society is consisted of. By making these two connections, they also call for the disjointed postwar world which is not easy to make, no matter what the connections are to be made of between the two.
For the first time in a long time, the English were very vulnerable to their own land. In 1923, when Mrs. Dalloway takes place, this old place is nearing the end of its time. Clarissa, Peter and Septimus fear the failure of the empire as well as their own personal fears. Along with the personal fears comes the fear of death. I am sure that everyone is afraid of the death aspect of their own life, so making this a big issue when it comes to the story of Mrs. Dalloway makes it even greater to understand the concept behind it as well. Even though this concept is scary, the comfortability level of the story when it comes to the death aspect is a great deal of appreciated knowledge that every character obtains throughout the story.