Exercises about Mrs. Dalloway

Exercise 1)

Riding the third three lines I understand that the narrator is a third person omniscient narrator.

Exercise 2)

Where is Mrs. Dalloway? Mrs Dalloway is in Bond Street.

What is she doing? She is doing shopping to her party.

What does she do then? Then she stops in front of a glove window and here she start to think about her daughter Elizabeth,Elizabeth's dog , her daughter's teacher Miss Killman and her uncle Wlliam.

Where is she going? She is going to the florist to buy flowers for her party.

Exercise 3)

line 8: "[...]Gloves and shoes; she had a passion for gloves; but her own daughter, her

Elizabeth, cared not a straw for either of them[...]Elizabeth really cared for her dog most of

all[...]"

line 12: "[...]Still, better poor Grizzle than Miss Killman[...]"

line 35: "[...]It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster[...]"

line 44: "[...]Nonsense, nonsense! She cried to herself[...]”

Exercise 4)

a. The point of view that describes physical actions and thoughts is the same. As a matter of fact the same omniscient narrator speaks in both narratives.

b. No, it hasn't. As a matter of fact the time of narration is longer than chronological time.