Mrs. Dalloway

I'm closing in on the last week of my 8 week course of English Lit. Since 1800. I have to say I've been pleasantly surprised with the course. I had small expectations that I would like the literature based on the literature I read in English Lit to 1800. This read my assignment was Mrs Dalloway. It was a story focused on character development that takes place in a day. One of the characters really stuck out to me and he was Septimus. Septimus was in the war and developed "shellshock." We know shellshock today as PTSD. Septimus tries to get help but ultimately takes his own life. I had to ponder about this character a bit. I felt sorry for him. Probably because I have known soldiers with PTSD and it is a very real disorder. Fortunately (if you could call it that), more is known about the disorder today and there is medicine and therapy available today. At the time Mrs Dalloway was written, although fictional, obviously not as much was known then as it was today. My heart goes out to anyone suffering from the disorder.