Exercise 2.

ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW:

1. Where is Mrs. Dalloway?

2. What is she doing?

3. What does she do then?

4. Where is she going?

(1) Mrs. Dalloway is in Bond Street, and while she goes on up Bond Street to a shop where they kept flowers for her (4), she thinks (2)… first of all thinks about her past: she remembers her uncle William, because she is in front of a gloves shop and so she reminds that her uncle used to say that a lady is known by her shoes and her gloves.

After that (3) she thinks about her daughter, Elizabeth, who really cares for her dog most of all; but, in particular she thinks about Miss Kilman, who is poor and a desperate religious woman. Mrs. Dalloway seems to be very irritated by her.

Exercise 3.

TRUE OR FALSE:

1. Mrs. Dalloway doesn’t like gloves. FALSE, because she has got a passion for it.
2. Glovers remind her of her uncle William. TRUE.
3. Uncle William is dead. FALSE, because the narrator says “her old uncle William.
4. Elizabeth’s dog is ill. FALSE, because the narrator says “Elizabeth cared for her dog most of all”.
5. Richard, Mrs Dalloway’s husband, doesn’t like Miss Kilman. TRUE.
6. He thinks Miss Kilman is intelligent. FALSE, because he doesn’t say that.
7. Miss Kilman and Mrs Dalloway belong to the same social class. FALSE, because the first one is poor and the last one is rich.
8. Mrs Dalloway regrets her inability to overcome her dislike for Miss Kilman. FALSE, because she says that this is impossible.

Exercise 3.

There is a relation between the time of narration and the chronological time: in fact Mrs Dalloway goes up Bond Street, when she stops for a moment at the window of a glove shop.

This shop recalls her, her uncle William because he used to say that a lady is known by her shoes and her gloves. She has got a passion for gloves , but her daughter doesn’t got this passion; her only delight is her dog.

Through this thoughts Mrs Dalloway associated her daughter’s dog with Miss Kilman. In Mrs Dalloway’s opinion she is a monster.

So, while she proceeds to think about her uncle, her daughter and Miss Kilman , she is arrived in front of the swing doors of Mulberry’s the florists.

We can say that there are two different times: the time in which the story happens, and the time in which Mrs Dalloway thinks about her life, that is the time of consciousness; but there is also a relation between the former and the latter.