The Decisions That Define Our Lives

Just like Clarrissa, Peter, and Septimus, we all make choices that affect our lives as well as affect others lives that are around us. Virginia Woolfe does a great job of showing how these characters decisions affect the other characters in the story. She shows how one characters choice can make or break another character. Clarrissa makes the choice to continue life and to be all she can be after learning of Septimus's choice to commit suicide. Clarissa makes the choice to choose Richard over Peter, this choice plays on both Peter and Clarissa. Clarissa struggles with "did she make the right choice" but Peter struggles with his loss of her at the same time. In reality we see this type of relationship every day, the choices of one effecting another and sometime effecting others more than themselves.