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PAmatruda-Modernist Fiction. V. Woolf and J. Joyce- Notes "What an extraordinary night!"
by - (2012-03-23)
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Clarissa's party is going on when the psychiatric Sir William Bradshaw and his wife arrive and tell that Septimus Werren Smith, Bradshaw's patient, committed suicide.
At first Clarissa is annoyed because the news ruin the atmosphere of the party, but after some minutes Clarissa's reaction is to walk away from the party and the guests. She imagines how Septimus dead, how he trough himself to the window.
Septimus was an insane man, decided to stop living: life is insopportable for him. When someone commit suicide is a sign.
It is a typically modernist text becaused believed to reach significance, things function, to communicate. Solitude is the inability to communicate. Then death can be liberation.