Set all on one day, Mrs Dalloway reveals the thoughts and feelings of Clarissa Dalloway as she prepares for a party. Depending on the technique of stream of consciousness which was important in the modern novel, Woolf shows the interior monologues of the guests that reveal the characters of the novel, reflecting many human experiences. During the party, Clarissa hears of Septimus Warren Smith’s madness which leads to his tragic and inevitable suicide. Such an incident affects Clarissa to a great extent that she sees events in her day run parallel to those of Smith.