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GLAllegro - Exercises from page 216-217
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1- a. Mrs Dalloway's actions: had reached, stood, looking

          Mrs Dalloway's thoughts: would not say, felt, sliced, was outside

     b. from line 1 to line 2: third person narrator

         from line 3 to line 30: interior monologue


2- a. negative aspects of her personality: she hadn't a good teaching

          positive aspects of her personality: knowing people by insticts

     b. She remembers her past with a smile, but she says to love her present, even if she

         doesn't know herself. So I think she doesn't really love her present, but she think so.

     c. She feels herself young and old at the same time; she feels to belong to world and

          simultaneously she feels not to belong to it.

     d. She asks herself if she was happy not to exsist or if she was afraid to die. She thinks

         she remains in people's thoughts, but she haven't her life, so why must she live?

         The quotation from Shakespeare is connected to her feelings, because it trys to find a

         place in the world without scare and she trys to do this too.


3- a. 1- free indirect thought: “She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were

                                                     this or were that”

 

         2- third-person narration from inside the character's point of view:

              “ she had seen them all lit up once; and remembered...”


         3- free direct style: “What was she trying to recover?...”


         4- direct questions with verbe tense in indirect form: “Did it matter then she asked

                                                                                                    herself...”


 

    b. The simile “being laid out like a mist between the people she knew best” underlines she

        doesn't belong to the world and her distance from it. The repetition of “what” underlines

        her attempt to find herself.