Learning Path » 5A Interacting
Exercise 1 page 216.
Verbs that introduce Mrs Dalloway's actions and thoughts:
Reached, Stood, Looking, Watched, Thought, Felt, Sliced, Remembered, Loved, Asked, Was outside.
Virginia Woolf in the extract used the third person narrator in the first line, while in the other lines she used the interior monologue.
Exercise 2 page 217
Clarissa's Negative Aspects: "She knew nothing" "She would not says everyone".
Clarissa's Positive Aspects: "she reflects, she was positive".
Clarissa's Attitude to the Past: She remembers her past with a smile.
Clarissa's Attitude to the Present: She says to love her present, even if she doesn't know herself.
Clarissa's Contradictory Aspects: She feels young and old at the same time; she feels to belong to world but she also feels not belong to it.
Clarissa's Feelings towards Death: She is positive towards death, and her feelings are connected with Shakespeare's quotation
"fear no more the heat o' the sun
Nor the furious winter's rages"
So, both try to find a place without fear.
Exercise 3 page 217.
Example of:
FREE INDIRECT THOUGHT: "She would not say (...) this or ...".
THIRD PERSON NARRATOR FROM INSIDE THE CHARACTER'S POINT OF VIEW: "Her only gift was (...)"
FREE DIRECT STYLE: "What was she dreaming (...) shop window?
DIRECT QUESTIONS WITH VERBE TENSE IN INDIRECT FORM: "Did it matter then she asked herself..."