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Exercise 2
Mrs Dalloway in in London, in Bond Street: it is one of the reachest streets of London. She's leaving fishmonger and going up Bond Street. She is stopping at gloves window. It reminds her her Uncle William and she thinks abour Elizabeth, her cousin, who lover her dog. In addition she is also thinking about Miss Killman: Mrs Dalloway does not like her, but her husband likes her.
She is going to one of the reachest florist's to by flowers for the party she is giving in the evening.
Exercise 3
Mrs Dalloway does not like gloves. FALSE: "She had a passion for gloves"
Gloves rimind her of her uncle William. TRUE
Uncle William is dead. TRUE
Elizabeth's dog is ill. FALSE: she only "cared for her dog most of all"
Richard, Mrs Dalloway husband, doesn't like Miss Kilman. FALSE: "It might be falling in love"
He thinks Mrs Kilman is intelligent. TRUE
Mrs Dalloway and Miss Kilman belong to the same social class. TRUE
Mrs Dalloway regrets her inability to overcome her dislike for Mrs Kilman
Mrs Dalloway suffers from psychological insecurity. TRUE
Exercise 4
a) The point of view is not the same for the narrative of physical actions and the narrative of thought. The former is filtered by an impersonal narrator, the latter is linked in third person and evolves in Mrs Dalloway's mind, through an association of ideas.
b) The time of narration is not linear and chronological, but simultaneous. It means that time is a mixture of past, present and future: in people's mind associations of ideas (that are not linear) take place. They are connected to past and future, through immediate associations. according to the new conception of time introduced by Bergson's theory and Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, time is subjective.