Learning Paths » 5B Interacting
-Mrs Dalloway is going out to buy flowers.
-She feels really happy and positive, mainly because of what the morning reminds her.
- The two different time dimensions that Clarissa faces in the extract are the present and the past, and the latter one reminds her the sound of a wave.
- Peter Walsh might have been Clarissa's friend or lover, as she says of him things referring about his sayings and linked to the past.
- Scrove Purvis thinks that Clarissa Dalloway is a charming woman, vivacious, bright, although her age and the illness occurred to her.
-Mrs Dalloway thoughts are referred to the objects and to the people that surround her, but also about the joy she is feeling.
Interpretation
-Virginia Woolf uses a 3rd person non intrusive omniscient reliable narrator, which is also free.
- Repetitions: What a lark! What a plunge!/How fresh, how calm.
Similes: the air was in the early morning, like the flap of the wave; the kiss of a wave.
Imagery: Clarissa Dalloway compared to a bird by Scrope Purvis.
Lists: referred to Peter Walsh sayings.
Alliterations: swinging-singing.
-The character of Clarissa Dalloway is created by Clarissa's thoughts and feelings and also by her behaviour and the writer's use of imagery and symbols.
-Clarissa Dalloway's stream of thought starts immediately after the beginning of the extract, when she thinks about the morning.
Virginia Woolf's "interior monologue" differs from James Joyce's stream of conscience as it uses pauses and punctuation, not used by James Joyce who meant to represent the continuous flux of thoughts made by the character.
- The two sisters do not give much importance to the external features of the character, but try to show her intimacy.