Comprehension

•·      1.   Mrs Dalloway is going out to buy some flowers for the party she is going to give in the evening.

•·        2. Mrs Dalloway seems nostalgic because , by mind associations she reminds of her past. Precisely , she remembers an episode happened when she was 18, which involved another character, Peter Walsh.

•·         3.The passage mixes different time dimensions: Clarissa's present ( she is going to buy some flowers), her past ( she remembers of an episode happened years before) and her immediate future ( she is going to give a party in the evening).

•·        4. I think Peter Walsh is one of Mrs Dalloway's friends. In the past they may have been in a partnership. In the episode narrated in the extract Peter is teasing Clarissa , that however is able to face the joke. Clarissa perfectly remembers the episode and the conversation they had and confesses  to herself that she loved everything of him. All that said so far makes me think that they had a good relationship which is still continuing now.

•·         5.Scrope Purvis considers Clarissa as a charming, sure and pause woman, solemn even in her walking and compares her to a blue-green, vivacious, light and blue-green bird.

•·         6.While walking, Clarissa thinks about the atmosphere felt before Big Ben strikes. She thinks about the hours and about life, which everyone loves. She loves life too. Precisely, she loves that moment of June in London.

Interpretation

•·       The narrator is a third person omniscient one. It is reliable and non intrusive.

      Repetition:  " What a lark! What a plunge!"  ( line 7)

Similes : " A touch of a bird about her, of the jay... " ( line 28)

Lists: " his eyes, his pocket knife, his smile, his grumpiness " ( line 22)

Alliterations: "tramp and trudge" ( line )

Clarissa's character is created by her thoughts and feelings, by her behaviour and by the writer's use of imagery and symbols. in particular, her stream of thoughts starts from the beginning of the novel.

•·       Both sisters portray their characters in a very vague way. So,they are very demanding to their readers, because they have to make efforts if they want to really understand how a character is.