Clarissa and Septimus
Exercises pg 478

COMPREHENSION ES 2
Clarissa through the beauty is able to overcome the feeling of hatred which she calls "this brutal monster", but she is interrupted by a noise, like a pistole shot, from the outside.
The narrator leaves Clarissa's point of view to tell about people reactions to the explosion and people's speculations about who may be in the car.
The narrator introduces Septimus Warren Smith.
The narration focuses on the traffic in the street and on Septimus' thoughts.
It follows the description of Septimus' wife appearance and thoughts, which reveal she is worried about him because he is thinking about killing himself.

ES 3
Setting: inside Mulberry's, a flower shop, and then in the road outside
Time: "it was the moment between six and seven"

ES 4
Flowers with their colours: delphiniums (blue), sweet peas (red), bunches of lilac (violet), carnations (pink, white or red), roses (red), irises (purple or yellow).

ES 5
Mr Dalloway is at the florist when she hears a noise which makes her jump and Miss Pam go to the window. The explosion comes from a car which has now drawn to the side of the pavement and passers stop and stare making suppositions on the identity of the person in the car.

ES 6
People suppose the person in the car may be the Prince of Wales, the Queen or the Prime Minister.

ES 7
Age: about thirty (Septimus) - 24 years (Lucrezia)
Nationality: English (Septimus) - Italian (Lucrezia)
Appearance:
pale faced, break nosed, wearing brown shoes and shabby overcoat, hazel eyes (Septimus);
Little woman with large eyes in a sallow pointed face (Lucrezia)
Attitude: apprehension (Septimus) - sallow (Lucrezia)

ES 9
The narrative is organised piece by piece, through association.

ES 10
Virginia Woolf adopts an omniscient narrator and the frequent changes of point of view allows the reader to have a complete vision of the characters described both through their interior monologues and from the point of view of other people.

ES 11
In the passage there's few action since the narrator describes Clarissa entering the florist, then Miss Pym's and Clarissa's thoughts and then the shot which draw their attention from the inside of the shop to the outside in the street.

ES 13

Alienation: "eyes which had that look of apprehension";

Panic: "The world has raised its whip, where will it descend?", "This gradual drawing together of everything to one centre (...) as if some horror had come almost to the surface and was about to burst into flames, terrified him";

- Feelings of guilt: "Was he not weighted there, rooted to the pavement, for a purpose?";

- Terror and anger: "her husband (...) said 'All right!' angrily";

- Madness:, "I will kill myself";

ES 14
The world around the characters is described primary through the use of the language of sense-impression which involves sight, hearing, smell in the description. The predominant sense in the extract is the sight, indeed the frequent focus on colours adds dynamism to the scene which is very poor of action.