War is an important theme in Mrs. Dalloway (1925), a post-World War I text. While on the one hand the emphasis is on Mrs. Dalloway's domestic life and her "party consciousness", on the other there are ideas of masculinity and "patriotic zeal which amaze the boys who march towards a stiff but fixed corpse and doctors perniciously concerned with civic-mindedness.” » , and the feeling of war reverberates throughout the text. Woolf's treatment of the Great War is different from the normative way the war is discussed in post-war texts. She does not include any direct glimpses of the battlefield in her text, but rather gives a detached description. This makes it more incisive because it delineates the aftereffects of ordinary personal life. Judith Hattaway notes that “Woolf's view of war is different. It appears not in terms of mud and barbed wire but rather through its points of contact with the ordinary life left behind and in the destruction of a secure past. Woolf actually examines how war has changed contemporary ways of looking at history, social structures, identity, and borders. Formally, the war is over, but in many ways – the aftereffects, the devastation that has not been compensated for, the horror that lingers in people's minds – the war persists. As Mrs. Dalloway walks the streets of London, she makes a very naive statement: "For it was the middle of June." The war was over “but for people like Septimus Smith, the war continues in the form of its everlasting destructive impact on their minds, bodies and lives. Alex Zwerdling states that "Woolf gives us the image of a class impervious to change." a society that desperately needs or demands it. It represents the ruling class as engaged...... middle of paper......tity. Woolf also condemns people like Bradshaw. Woolf may not care about the mud and barbed wire of war, but her work is a political attack on those who managed the social and economic aspects of the war and kept its victims in check afterward. Woolf herself states that "Septimus must somehow see through human nature, see its hypocrisy and insincerity, its power to recover from every wound, being incapable of taking a final impression , his feeling that it is not worth receiving. » Lois R. Robley notes that “those of us who have not witnessed it cannot imagine the horrors of war. Perhaps it is up to poets, writers, filmmakers and photojournalists to distill and recapture the images that remind us of the traumatic influence of war. Perhaps only then can we eliminate the need to be recalled and prepared to deal with war-related PTSD..”