Mrs Dalloway is a modernist novel and the present extract  represents

the end of the story: the title that the book gives to this part

is "what an extraordinary night", it is a monologue

the purpose of which is to described the emotions and
thoughts of Mrs Dalloway. It is written in the third person.

Starting from the beginning of the end the narrator

deals with the death of a young boy, that
commits suicide  throwing himself out of a window. In particular

he says that the Bradshaw explained what had  happened

at Clarissa's party: thanks to the protagonist a travel starts in Mrs. Dalloway's mind and consequently in the reader's one. Clarissa makes her thoughts about death claer.

In this case the purpose of the narrator is focused on  Clarissa's reaction and the visualization of suicide  is rendered using repetition and anaphoric structures. Moreover the narrator introduces the body's reaction to better underline what  happened.

Mrs. Dalloway  believes that death is  a way to communicate  something that conveys the person's mood: for instance the young boy wasn't able to find the correct balance in his life and for this reason in Mrs Dalloway's  opinion he had done the right thing. In addition the novelist that if she died that  would be the perfect happiness.

In addition, the narrator explains that she lives while  the young  boy  died and nevertheless Mrs Dalloway feels very happy:  with this state of the protagonist he
starts to describe her as a complex person with a pure character.

At the end an image is introduced and vividly conveyed : Clarissa imagines an old woman during her daily matters and only at the end she remembers that she must return to her party without thinking of the young boy.