Ex. 1

a) Actions: had reached, stood, looking.

Thoughts: would not say, felt, sliced, was outside.

b) Third person narrator: lines 1 and 2.

Interior monologue: from line 30 to the end.

Ex. 2

a) Negative aspects of her personality: she doesn't think herself clever, she knows nothing.

Positive aspects of her personality: she knows people by instinct.

b) She reminds her past ("Devonshire house...Sylvia, Fred, Sally Seaton..dancing all night..the wagons plodding past to market..") with pleasure and i think also with melancoly because she says to herself she loves present ("what she loved was this, here, now, in front of her..") but it sounds as if she tempts to convince herself even if she miss her youth.

c) She feels very young and aged at the same time; she feels to belong to world and

also not to belong to it.

d) Clarissa doesn't know if she prefers not to exist or if she is afraid to die. She understands that she doesn't feel part of the world and she hasn't a life even if she might remain in her parents' mind.

The quotation from Shakespeare refers to her feelings, because like her it tries to find a place in the world.

Ex. 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:

              "Not that she thought herself clever"

         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" fulfil the function of describe Clarissa's feelings: she feels "laid out" from the world. The repetition of "what" underlines her attempt to find herself.