Mrs Dalloway- Extract 3 – Exercises

Exercise 2

1) Mrs Dalloway is in Bond Street, London .
2) She is walking, then she stops and look 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, because in the evening there will be a party .

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)In this novel we have two narratives: a narrative of physical actions and a narrative of thought. The two narratives have got different points of view: the first one is filtered by an impersonal narrator, the second one is based on a third person inner narrator.

B) In this novel, the reader can see that the narrator, according to Modernism, adopts a simultaneous

concept of time. Time is not chronological because time is a mixture of past and present in Mrs Dalloway's mind.