Mrs. Dalloway- Ending

I was troubled by the similarities between Septimus and Clarissa. While Clarissa represents the seemingly sane and Septimus the insane, both struggle with reconciling their past with their present, have a great appreciation for Shakespearean literature, and fear oppression within their society. Perhaps with creating these two vastly different yet strikingly similar characters Woolf is trying to create a thinning line between society's views on sanity versus insanity, and furthermore what part society itself has in creating this "insane" person. For example, Clarissa is haunted by her decision to marry Richard instead of Peter Walsh, and all the decisions that have mounted from that single decision, since then. She feels as though her life has amounted to little, and looks at all of society's oppressing forces. Likewise, Septimus is haunted by the part he played in World War 1, and is troubled with adjusting back into a "normal" life after having endured so much in war. Though he loves and admires his wife, her presence isn't enough to cure his mind. Like Clarissa, he sees his circumstances as inescapable and condemns himself to a life of oppression. Unlike Clarissa, however, he takes it to an extreme level by committing suicide by jumping out the window. However, was Septimus really anymore unhappy than Clarissa, or just more desperate because of the role he was forced to play because of society's expectations of him while he was at war? And while the novel set up that Clarissa had a sort of revelation following Septimus's death about her life, society, and death, the reader must question how this will affect her long term as far as acceptance of her decisions and ultimately the lifestyle that she chose.