Such a connecting device is presented when Clarissa Dalloway is at the flower shop, when suddenly a car backfires in front of the flower shop. The car does not draw only Clarissa´s attention, but also that of the strollers outside the flower shop, among which Septimus Warren Smith, the shell-shocked World War I veteran, is present. ... The backfiring of the car scares Clarissa for a moment and persuades her to think that she heard "a pistol shot in the street outside" (14), presumably this thought is set off by the unconsciously persisting fear of World War I, although the war is ov...

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