Jessica Bais 5B

EXERCISES PAG. 534 - 535

COMPREHENSION:

1) Mrs Dalloway is going to buy flowers and she's walking in London Streets.

2) Clarissa is positive, relax, serene because It is a beautiful day of June in London.

3) In the extract there are two different dimensions: the present, where Clarissa is 52 years old and she has gone out in order to buy flowers; the past, a memory, when she remembers that, at the age of eighteen, in Bourton, she had opened the window and plunged into the open air. Clarissa's past evokes in her the silence of the air, the sound of waves and Peter Walsh's voice.

4) I think Peter Walsh was her boyfriend when she was young and now they're still friend. Clarissa tells that Peter is in India, that the letters he sends her are extremely boring and that his sayings, his eyes, his pocket-knife, his smile and his bad temper are impressed in her mind.

5) Scrope Purvis thinks Clarissa is a charming woman who reminds him a little bird, a jay, something of blue-green, light and vivacious.

6) While she's walking through the streets in Wesminster, she looks around her and reflects about the charm of London, with its people, trudge, carriages, motor cars and omnibuses and about feelings of peace and love it always produces in her heart.

INTERPRETATION:

1) Virginia Woolf uses a first person omniscient narrator, who knows everything about his character, but he is eclipsed, non intrusive and so the novel is free by any sign of narrator's presence.

2) Clarissa's character is created through the description of her thoughts and feelings, her behavior and the use of imagery and symbols.

3) Clarissa's stream of thoughts starts when she revokes a memory of her past.