Virginia Woolf’s biographical factors that had probably influenced Mrs Dalloway: (Is Mrs Dalloway autobiographical? ) • Woolf’s fear and thought of death is embodied in the figure of Septimus , a war veteran who is diagnosed to be paranoiac, and commits suicide by falling out of a window in reaction to his doctor’s decision to hospitalize him in a sanatorium. Woolf’s suicide confirms her suicidal thoughts she shared with her male character Sept imus , an alter ego for both Clarissa Dalloway and Virginia Woolf . Septimus and Woolf also share a hatred of authoritarian and inhumane doctors who do not understand their patients but in quantitative terms . • Clarissa Dalloway -Sally Seton and Virginia Woolf -Vita Sackville West the relationship between these last two: a s the two grew close, Woolf disclosed how she had been abused by her step -brother as a child . It was largely due to Sackville -West's support that Woolf began to heal from the trauma , allowing her for the first time to have a satisfying erotic relationship . Woolf purchased a mirror during a trip to France with Sackville -West, saying she felt she could look in a mirror for the first time in her