When World War I ended, many people questioned the brutality that continued during the four years the war was ongoing. Europeans' faith in authority and in their country began to collapse, and Modernism was one way to respond to the damage of those beliefs. It was obvious that the old world had disappeared and a new one had begun to arise. In this new world, while other aspects of Europe were advancing, improvements in psychiatric treatment of mental conditions, such as shell shock, were not enough. Most of British society remained unaware and uninterested in the problems these diseases imposed on veterans. This callous attitude towards soldiers inspired Virginia Woolf to write Mrs Dalloway. In this novel he shows us society's attitude towards mental illness by introducing a post-war veteran named Septimus Smith. The author uses Septimus' struggle with PTSD as a symbol to illustrate the problems of a modern society that does not understand how deeply the damage of the First World War affected people. An example of the difference between Septimus and the modern world like everything is when the plane flies over the people in the city while chanting the word toffee. Most people watching were amazed by this new technology. "'Glaxo,' said Mrs. Coates in a tense, terrified voice... 'Kreemo,' muttered Mrs. Bletchley, like a sleepwalker... as they looked at the whole world because they were perfectly still... (and the car entered the gates and no one looked at it)” (20-21). People were so fascinated by the plane; they didn't even care that the royal car arrived at the palace. Instead, he is completely lost in his thoughts and plays the plane in different way. “So, t... middle of paper... to grasp the legitimacy and severity of the disease emerged from this unfortunate reality a modernist novel in which Virginia Woolf sets out to juxtapose the "healthy" and the " insane" in an attempt to express his disgust at society's lack of sympathy and blindness towards those suffering from mental illness. Jeffrey. Surviving Literary Suicide. Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1999. Print.Korte, Barbara and Ralf Schneider. War and the cultural construction of identities in Great Britain. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002. Print.Levenback, Karen L. Virginia Woolf and the Great War. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse UP, 1999. Print. Ronchetti, Ann. The artist, society and sexuality in Virginia Woolf's novels. New York: Routledge, 2004. Print.Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. Print.