VIRGINIA WOOLF : MRS DALLOWAY

Comprehension

>>Mrs Dalloway is going to the florist.

>>She is in a good mood: the morning is fresh.

>>The passage mixes Clarissa's past and her present. Clarissa's past remembers she stood in front  of the windows feeling solemn but that something awful was about to happen.

>>I think that Peter Walsh is a friend of hers who lived with her. She says that he would be back from India those days, his letters were boring. She remembers only his eyes, his pocket knife, his smile and his bad-temper. She forgot the other things.

>>Scrope Purvis thought her she is like a bird, it may refer to a young woman which some people think is offensive.

>>She thought about the years had lived in Westminster, she thought that the poor and unhappy people loved life more than the others and she turned out that she loved life.

Interpretation:

>>The narrator is in the 3^rd person, it is omniscient, reliable, it coincides with the main character and it is intrusive.

>>Repetition: "like the flapp of a way, the kiss of a way;" "was that it? (..) was that it?"

Similes: "like the flap of the wave"

Imagery: "The carriages(....) and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved"

Lists: "In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages (..) and swinging."

Allitterations: "Sandwich men shuffling and swinging;" "was what she loved; life; London"

>> Clarissa's character is created through Clarissa's thoughts and feelings, Clarissa's behaviour and the writer's use of imagery and symbols.

>> They portay characters not giving a phisical descrisption but only throughout their actions and feelings. That is Clarissa is not phisically described and the painting doesn't show the face: so we cannot have a phisical view. This means that the reader/the viewer can make his/her own idea of the character and is free.