Death&Time (Mrs. Dalloway)

"The young man had killed himself; but she did not pity him; with the clock striking the hour, one, two, three, she did not pity him, with all this going on." (186)

Death -
Death plays a major role in not only Mrs. Dalloway but in Virginia Woolf's life. Little everyday items is not all she includes from her life. She also includes her own personal thoughts about death. Woolf commits suicide and has a character do this in the novel as well. She also alludes to Othello a handful of times which is a story about suicide and death.

Time-
A major part of Mrs. Dalloway is time. Woolf links time along with death. Time is a fraction of being able to understand death. Other pieces such as happiness, a deeper meaning to life and accepting that we are only on this earth for a short time work together to achieve being able to accept death. Ironically, this novel that has so much to do with time that it was almost named The Hours.