Learning Path » 5A Interacting
Exercise 1:
The narrator is a third person narrator and he or she is talking about Mrs Dalloway.
Exercise 2:
Where is Mrs Dalloway?
Mrs Dalloway is in Bond Street.
What is she doing?
She is doing shopping for her Christmas' party.
What does she do then?
She stops at glove windows and she thinks about her uncle Wlliam, her daughter Elizabeth, Elizabeth's dog and Miss Killman.
Where is she going?
She is going to the florist.
Exercise 3:
at 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...”
at line 12: “...Still, better poor Grizzle than Miss Killman.....”
at line 35: “...It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster...”
at line 44: “...Nonsense, nonsens! She cried to herself....”
Exercise 4:
Is the point of view the same for the two narratives?
Yes, the point of view is the same. One tells about what she is doing and the other tells about what she thinks.
Has the time of narration any relation with chronological time?
No, it hasn't, because the time of narration is longer than chronological time.