Mrs. Dalloway's plot is simple. It all takes place on a June day in 1923. Clarissa, wife of Richard Dalloway, a member of the British Parliament, goes out to buy flowers for the evening party. On the way, she passes through some of the streets Central London and two of its main parks, meeting his friend Hugh Whitbread. His path intersects with that of another central character, Septimus Warren Smith, who, stricken by a serious war trauma, makes his way with the wife he met in Italy, Rezia, for an appointment with a leading psychiatrist.
Back at home, Mrs. Dalloway is, visited by an old boyfriend, Peter Walsh. Leaving Clarissa's house, he undertakes his own walk around London, returning later to his hotel, from where he leaves, in the late afternoon, for his old girlfriend's party. The novel culminates in Mrs. Dalloway's party, where people from her current acquaintances meet, like the Prime Minister himself, and people from his past: in addition to Peter Walsh, also Sally Seton, a teenage crush.
A mosaic of exterior scenes, fills the apparent plot of the novel: the passage of a mysterious automobile carrying an important political character, the feats of a scribe plane, a feud between Mrs. Dalloway's teenage daughter, Elizabeth, and her governess, Ms. Kilman, Peter Walsh's adventurous, pursuit of a young lady, he had, singled out from the crowd, a beggar, near the Regent's Park subway station, singing an ancient song; the tragic end of Septimus.
