First, I’ll discuss the suicides of both Septimus Warren Smith and Richard Brown in which I’ll thaw out the similarities in their personalities and in the way they both kill themselves. I’ll connect my thesis to the two men by stating that the intimate relations they both had was the driving force that contributed to their decision to commit suicide. Following that, I’ll talk more about Septimus’ relationship with Officer Evans as well as Richard’s relationship with Clarissa Vaughn. In between writing about Septimus and Richard, I’ll also go over Virginia Woolf’s suicide in The Hours and her relationship with her husband, Leonard, the similarities of Virginia’s marriage to Septimus’ marriage, and how Clarissa Dalloway identifies with Septimus
