What is so modern!

pg. 186 "The young man had killed himself; but she did not pity him;with the clock striking the hour, one, two, three, she did not pity him....She felt somehow very lie him-the young man who had killed himself. She felt glad that he had done it; thrown it away. The clock was striking."

I find the passage to be telling of the "non-Victorian" style and more the modern. I think that Victorian style writing would have never discussed the thought of suicide as good or relaxing. However, with suicide still being such a taboo subject that is not often explored Clarissa looks out the window at the old lady and is actually glad for Septimus. With the sound of the clock chiming you get the feeling that her time is limited. "He made her feel the beauty; made her feel the fun."