DeMeester used the article explain the trauma and recovery in modern past was books. DeMeester sees the Septimus’ character established the paradigm of the shell shock war veterans and reveal the tragedy of post war reintegration. Woolf added the outlook of a psychological condition named post- traumatic stress disorder. DeMeester comments; “In her novel, Woolf depicts a psychological condition which scientist would not understand until half a century later, and her stream of circumstances narrative, brilliantly illustrate the fragment mind of trauma victim and survivor.
Woolf reveals modernist literature was about trauma not recovery. Septimus never recovers from shell shock because he never could give meaning to the suffering he experiences