The extract is taken from Mrs Dalloway, a Virginia Woolf's novel written in 1924. The title is Mrs Dalloway, the main character of the novel. From the title the reader can expect the novel will be about a married woman, called Mrs Dalloway.

This extract is set in a morning of June in London. Mrs Dalloway decide to goes out in London to buys some flowers for her party that she's organizing.   The intelligent reader understand immediately the social condition of the woman. She is married, and also o come from a wealthy family because she has servants, that are preparing the house for the party.

Mrs Dalloway during his trip in the city, remember the past, when she was living in Bourton and  she was eighteen years old.   The woman remember also  Peter Walsh, one of her lovers. He is characterized by his comic vein, because Mrs Dalloway thinks about his joke on that morning, his positive features, his smile, and his behaviour. The novelist use the new narrative technique of "interior monologue". The narrator almost disappears and the point of view  overlaps with the internal thoughts of the characters.  Grammar rules are respected and punctuation is used to reproduce the sequence of thoughts, memories, feelings, considerations of the characters.

During the extract the woman, Mrs Dalloway is characterized by Scrope Purvis's point of view, a neighbor. She's described like a charming vivacious woman that is in her fifties. This descriptions also introduce the fact that she was ill, but we can't know what type of illness she has yet.

The narrator is a third person omniscient one: he knows what Mrs Dalloway feels and thinks. Besides he's not intrusive because he doesn't offer further comments on characters and events.