An Indictment of Wealth

In the book Mrs. Dalloway Wolf paints the picture of a rather pathetic and mundane group of central characters. Clarrisa, Peter Walsh, Hugh Whitbread, these area ll people creating a egocentric and falsified world for themselves. Hugh shuns reality by deluding himself with his letters, believing himself an involved philanthropist when he is, in actuality a lame gesture of British supremacy. Clarrisa fools herself into thinking than she is a prominent member of society, while she cant even got a lunch invitation with Lady Burton. Even the likable Sally Seton becomes yet another member of the boring aristocracy, forsaking the individuality that brought her immortality in the minds of her friends. I found Septimus the most likable of the characters because he actually has a reason for his pathetic state, and one that one person should deny him. Mrs. Killman delivers a tyrade against the wealth of the British aristocracy, going so far to say that Clarrissa's life was a "tissue of lies and deceit". She offers what I believe is Woolf's perspective on the whole thing, an indictment of the lives that wealth has brought so many.