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    In the novel Mrs. Dalloway , the story generally centers around two main characters: Clarissa Dalloway, a rich woman who buys flowers, wonders where her love truly lies, and throws a party, and Septimus Warren Smith, a philosophical man who struggles with PTSD in a time when he couldn't get the help he needed and jumps out of a window. The two never meet, yet Clarissa, in the middle of her party, grieves for this man (who wasn't even named!), creating the strangest and most moving moment in this novel. While they may seem extremely different at first glance, the entire book truly is built to make you feel like they are two halves of the same person.     Woolf herself said that Septimus initially wasn't even part of the plan, and Clarissa was actually intended to die. Septimus arrived later as a man who could carry that fate, so Clarissa didn't have to. That means that Septimus isn't a side character or a subplot; instead, he's the road that Clarissa didn...