1

• Verbs that introduce Mrs Dalloway actions: reached, stood, looking, watched, walking, driving, walking, looked, thought, remembered, felt and loved.

• A third-person narrator is used in all the text. After the two lines interior monologue is used (free indirect thoughts)

2

• Negative aspects: “sense of being out and alone”; she felt ignorant;

• Positive aspects: “she was positive, of the trees at home, of the house there”

• Attitude to the past: she likes remembering past

• Contradictory aspects: she felt young and old at the same time; she has negatives feeling towards death, but she is not afraid of death.

3

• Free indirect thought: she felt very young, at the same time unspeakably aged

• Third person narrator from inside the character’s point of view: Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on.

• Free direct thought: She would not say to herself: I am this, I am that.

• Direct question with verb tense in indirect form: Did she resent it, or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?

• Simile: sliced like a knife

• Repetition: out, out, far out

• The narrator uses a style that recalls poetry and creates into the reader’s mind the idea of being very close to a character.