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TTurco - Exercises about V. Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway"
by TTurco - (2010-01-18)
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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.

 

  1. Mrs Dalloway is walking through Bond Street.
  2. She's going out to buy the necessary for the party she's going to give in the evening.
  3. She's leaving the fishmonger.
  4. 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.