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Symmetry in Mrs. Dalloway is significant in it's portrayal of characters and its careful juxtaposition of storylines. Since the introduction of Septimus Smith and his "universe", the existence of a viewpoint so different to the one first introduced to us, the reader, is puzzling. However, I believe that there is a reason for this... Perhaps Virginia Woolf sought to portray Septimus as a version of Clarissa intensified to a point that he would be unrecognizable; a "reductio ad absurdum" of sorts. There are numerous examples of Septimus being similar to Clarissa.. similar in the same sense and similar in contradicting ways. Here are some of my observations of this idea of symmetry: 1) Lucrezia is unable to really understand and help Septimus; the same is with Richard and Clarissa 2) Clarissa loved Sally or had at least a very close friendship with her; Septimus and Evans shared a very close relationship as well 3) The two characters have a sort of "lost pote...