I'm going to analyse an extract from Mrs Dalloway, written in 1925 by Virginia Woolf. It is a modernist novel.

The extract describes Mrs Dalloway's thoughts and intentions. "Mrs" recalls her social status and wants to focus the reader's attention on her state of a married women.
She is thinking about the flowers she wants to buy for her party.
In the second line you can find the name of "Lucy", she may be a servant at her house.
A third person narrator is reporting what she is thinking:the morning is very fresh and good for children on a beach.
After that ther's a character's interior monologue. The reader perceives all her thoughts:she thinks about her past, when she was young (eighteen years old) and was in Bourton. In the next lines the language appeals in a direct way to senses, the reader imagines the waves of the sea thatclarissa also is imagining. Repetitions, onomatopeic use of the language, anaphoric language, and the use of short sentences are frequently used to convey the fellings of the charachter throught poetical devices.

Go on reading another character is introduced:Peter Walsh. Clarissa's interior monologue makes the reader aware of that character.. The use of direct speech reproduces the exact words of Peter as if you were there and could listen them. The reader can understand that Peter Walsh writes letters to Clarissa, and she does not appreciate them. There are also some information about Peter: "his eyes, his pocket-knife, his smile, his grumpiness". They are some Peter's characteristics that Clarissa rememberes through istantaneous images. Clarissas's pont of view describes the new character, bonding and influencing the reader's thoughts.
Through her interior monolgue Clarissa can move herself from her past to her present. It is a modernist feature that consist in a new concept of time. During the Victorian period time was linear, in the modern age time is considered simultaneous. There is a mixture of past, present and future in the character's mind. Also the eclipse of the narrator is a modern featuwr. The narrator is't there, but instead he is still into the text.
 
The narration returns to the present: Clarissa is walking and stops a little. She is thinking about her past in Westminster, about life and makes references to heaven but also to what she is seeing in front of her. There is a lot of traffic but sheis positive. She loves life."was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June" conveys in a perfect way her approach to life and her love for it. There are short sentences and pharases that involves the reader and make easier the comprension of hte concepts. It creates a dynamic rythm in the narration and the reader feels more involved.
after that the caracter thinks to the war and about two womens, Mrs Foxcroft and Lady Boxborough, that are suffering for the deaths of their sons.

Clarissa also underlines that the war was over. In saying this she thanks heaven.
there is a description of people she sees on the way. The reader perceives the happiness that Clarissa feels for her party. Her happiness is put in contrast with the feelings she feels when she enters in the Park ("the silence; the mist; the hum; the slow-swimming happy ducks").

The direct speech introduces another character, Hugh Whitbread, a friend of the woman.