The text is an extract taken from the novel Mrs Dalloway by Vriginia Woolf. Starting from the title, the reader may expect the novel is about a lady who has got married. Mrs Dalloway is the first character presented by the writer. Before going to buy the flowers she admires the landscape. It is a fresh morning of spring or summer. The atmosphere is created on the level of sounds and the language refers to the poetic one, indeed the writer uses an anaphoric syntax and similes to better describe life in London.
Her emotions bring her in the past when she was eighteen and when she was talking to Peter Walsh, the boy she liked. Mrs Dalloway is described by Scrope Purvis' point of view like a vivacious woman, like a bird despite she was over fifty. Again the feelings produced by the sounds and by the landscape make her think and reflect. She thinks about life and about the beauty of the moment. The language used by Virginia Woolf appeals particularly to senses which are at the base of Clarissa Dalloway's feelings, associations and momories. Time is not cronological, instead time of consciousness is used: the present and the past coexist in the character's mind. The narrator is a third person omniscient narrator and he uses a free indirected style in order to help the reader to feel inside character's mind. Insted, when Clarissa Dalloway remembers, Peter Walsh the narrator uses a directed speech because he wants to highlight his words.