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returned since the end of the war. His view on London has drastically changed. “Those five year-1918 to 1923- had been, he suspected, somehow very important. People looked different. Newspapers seemed different” (Woolf, 80). Time had changed his perception of London, and the only thing he knew before was what his memories told him. “These references suggest that the class under examination in the novel is living on borrowed time” (Zwerdling, 70). Their values and memories of what London used to hold is no longer accurate. Unlike the rest of the story, these memories of what London used to be like, do not have any credibility. Time had changed the feelings and thoughts of the people, and so the characters must adapt, make new memories. “The
sense of living in the past, of being unable to take in or respond to the transformations of the present, make the governing class in Mrs.Dalloway seem hopelessly out of step with its time” (Zwerdling, 72). Septum’s comes back to London after fighting in World War I and is suffering from shell-shock. His memories from the war leave him feeling numb and trapped in his mind. Septimus has removed himself from the physical world, not allowing actual time to take an effect on him. [His] “traumatized mind apprehends the traumatic event as ever-present, and his memories of the event often exist in the present consciousness…the survivor cannot think of the traumatic event in chronological terms such as ‘this was my life before this happened, this is what happened, this is what I became” (DeMeester, 649). His mental instability allows him to live in an internal world, where he talks to his dead friends who died in the war. “Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming into the wilderness. The rack and the thumbscrew are applied. Human nature is remorseless” (Woolf, 95). As Big Ben strikes noon, Septimus is on his way to his appointment to see the psychiatrist.