Richard Dalloway, Clarissa's husband, holds a governmental post

Peter Walsh, A former suitor of Clarissa

Elizabeth Dalloway, the daughter of Richard and Clarissa Dalloway

Lucy, maid in the Dalloway house

Scrope Purvis, the Dalloways' neighbor

Hugh Whitbread, a friend of the Dalloways

Evelyn Whitbread, Hugh Whitbread's wife

Sally Seton, close friend of Clarissa Dalloway

Doris Oilman, Elizabeth Dalloway's tutor

Septum's Warren Smith, an ex-soldier who is shell shocked from the Great War

Lucrezia Warren Smith, Septimus' wife

Evans, friend of Septimus and soldier killed in great War

Daisy, young lady planning to marry Peter Walsh

Sir William Bradshaw, Septimus' physician

Dr. Holmes, a doctor that Septimus and Lucrezia consult

Lady Millicent Bruton, friend of the Dalloways

Clarissa Dalloway is the central figure in the text. She is a sweet woman, about fifty years old, who is frail and weak because she has just recovered from an illness. Clarissa seems to be a quiet and private person. She is not the type of person who shares, rather, Clarissa appears to be cautious of exposing what she thinks or wants. A prime example of Clarissa DallowayÕs private life can be equated with the way she lives in her home with Richard Dalloway. She retreats to the attic and wants to be alone from her husband. Clarissa longs to be a different person and wishes she was much like her friend Sally who is much more daring and is not as reserve as Clarissa. It is also obvious that Clarissa wishes that she had married Peter Walsh. It is as if readers are in the head of Clarissa because her longing for something other than she has is never verbalized throughout the text.