Learning Path » 5A Interacting
Exercise 1.
Reading the third line of the extract I understand the narrator is a third person omniscient narrator because he uses the third person to speak about the character, in addition it is as if the narrator were into character's mind; as a matter of fact he uses expressions like "Bond street fascinated her" to convey Mrs Dalloway's thoughts.
Exercise 2.
- Mrs Dalloway is walking through Bond Street.
- She's going out to buy the necessary for the party she's going to give in the evening.
- She's leaving the fishmonger.
- She's going to Mulberry, the florist who keeps flowers for her.
Exercise 3.
•- And her old uncle Williams used to say a lady in known by her shoes and her gloves;
•- But her own daughter, her Elizabeth, cared not a straw for either of them;
•- Still better poor Grizzle than Miss Kilman;
•- Anyhow they were inseparable, and Elizabeth, her own daughter, went to Communion;
•- For Miss Kilman would do anything for the Russians;
•- It rasped her, though, to have stirring, about in her, this brutal monster;
•- Nonsense, nonsense;
Exercise 4.
1. In the two narratives the point of view is not the same: in the first part we have a third person omniscient narrator while in the second part the narrator uses the technique of the shift of the point of view: enters Mrs Dalloway's mind and adopts her point of view.
2. The time of narration hasn't got any correlations with chronological time because it is a subjective time according to the new conception of time introduced by Bergson's theory and Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.