Exercise 2

1. Mrs Dalloway is in Bond Street

2. She is walking through Bond Street. While she is walking she thinks about her uncle William (when she passes for a moment at the window of a glove shop).

3. After that she goes on thinking about the past. She thinks about Elizabeth, who really cared for her dogs most of all, and about a religious woman, Miss Kilman.

Exercise 3

1. Mrs. Dalloway does not like gloves. FALSE

2. Gloves remind her of her uncle William. TRUE

3. Uncle William is dead. FALSE

4. Elizabeth’s dog is ill. FALSE

5. Richard, Mrs Dalloway’s husband, does not like miss Kidman. TRUE

6. He thinks Miss Kidman is intelligent. FALSE

7. Miss Kidman and Mrs Dalloway belong to the same social class. FALSE

8. Mrs Dalloway regrets her inability to overcome her dislike for Miss Kidman. FALSE

9. Mrs Dalloway suffers from psychological insecurity. TRUE

Exercise 4

a. The point of view for the two narratives is not the same. In the narrative of Physical actions the narrator speaks from an impersonal point of view. In the narrative of thought the narration adopts one character’s point of view.

b. The time of narration is related with chronological time, because the narrator shows Mrs Dalloway walking Bond Street and stopping at a glove shop. These are the only two elements correlated to a chronological idea of time. in the other part of the extract time of consciousness is considered. the narrator deals with Clarissa’s memories, and so the past is recalled be Clarissa’s mind.