# Clarissa Dalloway — Mrs Dalloway character guide

> Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Clarissa, Dalloway, Clara, Mrs. Dalloway

**First appearance:** 0000-mrs-dalloway

## Who they are

A fifty-something London hostess steps out to buy flowers herself, and the whole city—its traffic, its memories, its dead—rushes in to meet her.

## Relationships

### [Peter Walsh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mrs_dalloway_se/characters/peter_walsh)

_romantic_

Former lovers with unresolved romantic tension, marked by deep affection and painful memories.

### [Sally Seton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mrs_dalloway_se/characters/sally_seton)

_romantic_

Intense youthful romantic friendship with lingering emotional intimacy and nostalgia.

### [Elizabeth Dalloway](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mrs_dalloway_se/characters/elizabeth_dalloway)

_family_

Mother and daughter with a loving but somewhat distant relationship due to generational differences.

### [Richard Dalloway](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mrs_dalloway_se/characters/richard_dalloway)

_family_

Husband and wife in a stable, affectionate but emotionally restrained marriage.

### [Hugh Whitbread](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mrs_dalloway_se/characters/hugh_whitbread)

_social_

Longtime acquaintance within high society, marked by polite but superficial interaction.

### [Joseph Breitkopf](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mrs_dalloway_se/characters/joseph_breitkopf)

_social_

A minor acquaintance from Clarissa's youth, associated with her memories of Bourton.

### [Lucrezia Warren Smith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mrs_dalloway_se/characters/lucrezia_warren_smith)

_social_

Distant social connection; Clarissa feels a vague sympathy for Lucrezia at her party.

### [Peter Walsh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mrs_dalloway_se/characters/peter_walsh)

_romantic_

Former lovers with unresolved romantic tension, marked by deep affection and painful memories.

### [Sally Seton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mrs_dalloway_se/characters/sally_seton)

_romantic_

Intense youthful romantic friendship with lingering emotional intimacy and nostalgia.

### [Elizabeth Dalloway](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mrs_dalloway_se/characters/elizabeth_dalloway)

_family_

Mother and daughter with a loving but somewhat distant relationship due to generational differences.

### [Sally Seton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mrs_dalloway_se/characters/sally_seton)

_romantic_

Intense youthful romantic friendship with lingering emotional intimacy and nostalgia.

### [Lucrezia Warren Smith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mrs_dalloway_se/characters/lucrezia_warren_smith)

_social_

Distant social connection; Clarissa feels a vague sympathy for Lucrezia at her party.

## In the story

### [Mrs. Dalloway](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mrs_dalloway_se/chapters/mrs-dalloway)

Hosts a party; is disturbed by news of a young man's suicide; reflects on her past with Sally Seton and Peter Walsh.

## Links

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