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CDean - Exercises 3rd Extract Mrs Dalloway
by CDean - (2010-12-21)
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EXERCISE 2

 

1. Mrs Dalloway is in Bond Street.
2. She is walking and looking at the window of a glove shop.
3. She is thinking about what her uncle said about gloves.
4. She is going to buy flowers.

 

EXERCISE 3

1. Mrs Dalloway doesn't like gloves. FALSE
2. Glovers remind her of her uncle William. TRUE
3. Uncle William is dead. TRUE
4. Elizabeth's dog is ill. FALSE
5. Richard, Mrs Dalloway's Husband, doesn't like Miss Kilman. FALSE
6. He thinks Miss Kilman is intelligent. TRUE
7. Miss Kilman and Mrs Dalloway belong to the same social class. FALSE
8. Mrs Dalloway regrets her inability to overcome her dislike for Miss Kilman. FALSE
9. Mrs Dalloway suffers from phychological insecurity. TRUE

 

EXERCISE 4

a) The point of view for the two narratives is not the same. The first is filtered by an impersonal narrator and the second is related in third person narrator that develops in Mrs Dalloway's mind.
b) Time is simultaneous, not chronological. There is a mixture between past and present in the character's mind.