Exercises  1,2,3 pag. 216/217

1)

a) The verbs used to introduce Mrs. Dalloway's actions and thoughts are:  to reach, to stand, to look, to say, to slice, to watch, to think, to know, to read, to put, to see, to remember, to love, to ask, to survive, to feel.

b) The third person narrator is used in the first line: the speaking voice informs us about Clarissa's actions ("She had reached the Park..."). The  interior monologue is used in all other lines to tell about what she thinks: this technique was very used in modernist prose.   

2)

a) She felt herself not very different from an ordinary person, she never read something and she knew nothing:  she felt not so intelligent. At the same time she felt aged and young, she was outside but looking on : she didn't not like her insecurity.  She tried to be positive: this is a positive aspect of her personality.

b) She liked her past because she remembered what she had done together with her friends. Now she tries to be positive and she is happy for her present although she has contradictory feelings.

c) At the same time, she felt young and aged: it means that she has contradictory feelings. In addition she was outside, but looking on. She was in reality but at the same time she was outside reality.

d) According to Shakespeare's quotation, you can understand that Clarissa thought that you should not fear death and that someone can survive living in each other.

3)

a)

Free indirect thought:  "She would not say... that they were this or were that."

Third-person narration from inside the character's point of view:  "She felt very young and at the same time unspeakably aged"

Free direct thought: "But what was she dreaming as she looked into Hatchards' shop window?"

Direct questions with verb tense in indirect form: "she asked herself, walking..., did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely."

b)

"of the trees at home, of the house there", "no language, no history", "and remember; and dancing....; and the wagons....; and driving...", "she would not say of Peter, she would not say of herself" , "I am this, I am that", "She sliced like a knife":  all the technical devices and rhetoric  figures are important to focus the reader's attention on what he has read. In addition, the prose seems connected to poetry.