Comprehension:

1-      Where is Mrs Dalloway going?

2-      What is her mood?

3-      The passage mixes two different time dimension. Which are they? What sound evokes the past in Clarissa’s mind?

4-      Who do you think is Peter Walsh? What does Clarissa say of him?

5-      What does Scrope Purvis think of Clarissa?

6-      What are Clarissa’s thoughts while walking through the streets in Westminister?

Interpretation:

7-      What kind of narrator is used?

8-     Critics have often used the term “poetic prose” with reference to Woolf’s style which features an abundance of repetitions, similes, imagery, lists and alliterations. Find at least one or two examples of each.

9-      How is Clarissa’s character created?

Answers:

1-      She is going to buy the flowers.

2-      In other words her moods is her conditions that changes during the novel.

3-      The two different dimension are the present and the past (twenty years ago). It evokes a caution.

4-      Someone that she likes or a simple neighbor. She say that he prefers musing among the vegetables.

5-      Scrope Purvis thought her as a touch of the bird about her, of the jay, blue-green, light, vivacious, though she was over fifty, and grown very white since her illness. 

6-      She thought as one feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking at night.

7-      The narrator is: 3^rd person, omniscient, reliable, not intrusive.

8-      For Examples when she describes something or somebody using a lot of words with a similar meaning.

9-      She is created through statements by the author and her thoughts and feelings.