Mrs Dalloway · Character

Evans

Septimus Smith's dead commanding officer, whose remembered voice and wartime bond return to haunt a shell-shocked mind that cannot leave the trenches behind.

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Evans exists in the novel less as a living man than as a presence Septimus cannot shake, surfacing in hallucinations and half-spoken conversations that unsettle everyone around him. The bond between officer and soldier was warm enough that Septimus speaks to him as a friend, yet the war that forged it also destroyed his grip on the present. His haunting presence signals, early on, that the peace London celebrates has not reached every returning soldier.

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Psychological
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Character groups

Septimus's tragic orbit
Protagonist
Upper-class social circle
Minor characters and passersby

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Relationships

Lucrezia Warren Smith
psychological · negative
Lucrezia Warren Smith
psychological · negative

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