Learning Paths » 5B Interacting
1)Where is Mrs Dalloway going? Mrs Dalloway is going to buy some flowers
2)What is her mood? She is happy but she senses a negative feelin
3)The passage mixes two different time dimensions. Which are they? What sound evokes the past in Clarissa's mind? The extract mixes the past dimension and the present dimension. The sound that evokes the past in Clarissa's mind is the squeak of the hinges.
4)Who do you think is Peter Walsh? What does Clarissa say of him? In my opinion Peter Walsh is a person very important for Mrs Dalloway . Clarissa Dalloway says he is going to be back from India and that she remebers some of his sayings.
5)What does Scrope Purvis think of Clarissa? She thinks she is like a light and a vivacious bird despite she is over fifty and she has been ill.
6)What are Clarissa's thoughts while walking through the streets in Wsetminster? Clarissa after the end of silence caused by Big Ben strikes she thinks about the pleasure of living and the beauty of the moment
INTERPRETATION
1)3rd person; omniscient; reliable; non intrusive
2)Repetitions:What a lark, what a plunge, how fresh, how calm; similes: like the flap of a wave, a touh of the bird. Lists: his eyes, his poket-knife, his smile, his grumpiness..., the carriages, motorcars, omnibuses, vans..., making it up, builfing it round one, tumbling it, creating it... Alliterations: stiller than this, the air was in the early morning
3)Clarissa's thought's and feelings, the writer's use of imagery and symbols.
4)What a lark...