MRS DALLOWAY
In the extract Clarissa goes to buy some flowers for a party, that she's organizing. The First part of the novel immediately puts reader's attention to the narrative techniques used by Virginia Woolf. The first element is the organization of the discourse that follows the "stream of conscoiusness" used by Joyce with the difference that the Woolf wants render a grammatical order thanks to associations of ideas. The reader can highlight the redundant repetition of worsd that are in the whole extract. Moreover, there is an alliteration of the consonant, for example "w", that recalls also the name of the Mrs Dalloway. Indeed Virginia WOlldf wants to enter in the interiority of the characters and she doesn't stop to describe the plot. Fort this reason, she tries to reproduce the flow of thoughts of Mrs Dalloway. The sentences are, in fact, repetitive, sometimes short and don't follow a strict logical organization. So it is a modern novel just becouse she wants to express the inner world of characters.
To give voice to interiority uses not a omniscient narrator, but the various viewpoints of the mind of the characters (subkective reality) through the use of flashbacks, associations of ideas and impressions about the time taking the connotations of a stram of consciousness (the extreme of interior monologue). In particoular, she mixes the internal and external world.
In addition, it is so important the setting of the novel. Indeed it is one of the most innovative aspects of Mrs Dalloway. The events of the story take place on a Wednesday in June 1923. So it is setting in a only one day. The thoughts through assoications can get away the character from the present and he can remeber events of the past, lenghthening the time of the narrative.
It is possible also note that there are questions that refer precisely the question that every men sometimes arise in one's mind. The characyer tries to search an aswer to the questions but he obtained onlu vague and ripetitive thoughts.