2. Woolf saw Septimus Warren Smith as an essential counterpoint to Clarissa Dalloway. What specific comparisons and contrasts are drawn between the two? What primary images are associated, respectively, with Clarissa and with Septimus? What is the significance of Septimus making his first appearance as Clarissa, from her florist's window, watches the mysterious motor car in Bond Street?
As for the second question, we can refer to p.16-20. The “gunshot” caused by the motor car which stops Mrs. Dalloway’s thinking, while it blocks Septimus’s way. Clarissa is thinking of Elizabeth and Miss Kilman (16-18). Her thought “rasped her”(17) and her hatred corresponds to Septimus’s psychology.
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