What an extraordinary night"  " is an  extract taken by the end of the novel Mrs. Dalloway, written by Virginia Woolf.

In this extract, from Bradshaw the guests come to know about Septimus's suicide.  During the novel both Septimus and Clarissa try to make sense of their life. Septimus suffers of mental illness, Suicide was a way he found to stop the pain.

In this extract we have a third person narrator, who adopts Clarissa's point of view. Clarissa's reaction to Septimus's suicide is not given only by the narrator, but also by the language of sense: the narrator make sure you feel and see what Clarissa feels during his violent reaction. Besides the narrator use the interior monologue technique. For this reason many sentences are "loosely constructed", with a lot of repetition and conjunctions.

Clarissa imagine Septimus that throws himself from the window. But the suicide of Semptimus is a pretext for Clarissa to think and to reflect about life and death. Besides shr hypothesizes that he was forced to commit suicide by the brutal psychoanalysis cure of Dr. Bradshaw.

The second sequence's function is to analyse life and death. The reader understands Clarissa's feeling, throw the interior monologue technique. She considerers death as an act of communication, is an attempt, a search of meaning. Septimus committed suicide because he considered life unbearable.

In this extract there are also two quotations taken by W. Shakespeare. The first is “If it were now to die, ‘twere now to be most happy”, drow on by Othello. The second one, “Fear no more the heat of the sun”, is from Cymbeline.