2.

The text can be divided into 5 sections:

Section 1: lines 1-24

Section 2: lines 24-44

Section 3: lines 45-56

Section 4: lines 56-62

Section 5: lines 63-86

3.

The story is set in London’s streets and in the flower shop in a sunny day.

4.

Flowers                                                       Their colours

Carnations                                                   red

Peas                                                            tinged violet, snow, white, pale

Roses, carnations, irises, lilac                        white, violet, red, deep orange

5.

The main event in the passage is the arrive of the motor car. Many people were curious to know who was into the car. They stopped and stared and thy made hypothesis about the car’s owner.

6.

The car has got a dove-grey upholstery, a dove-grey blind.

People thought that the  Prince of Wales, the Prime minister or the Queen may be in the car.

 7.                            

                              Septimus                                                 His wife

Age                         30                                                            24

Nationality               English                                                    Italian 

Appearance             pale-faced, beak-nosed,                           a little woman, with

                               wearing brown shoes and                        large eyes in a large

                               a shabby overcoat, with hazel                  pointed face

                               eyes.

Attitude                   He’s apprehensive                                   She’s worried about what the other people

                                                                                              could think about her and her husband.

 

9.

The narrative is organized piece by piece, through association.

10.

The narrator is an omniscient narrator. The aim of the author is to make the reader know Clarissa’s thoughts.

11.

She advanced		She snuffed in		She began to go from jar to jar		Stimulate, a pistol		People stop and observe the scene
	Mrs. Pym’s thoughts		Clarissa’s thoughts		Clarissa’s thoughts		Connotation of what is happened		People make suppositions

 

Septimus hears Edgar J.Watkiss		Dialogue between Septimus and his wife
	Septimus thougths		His wife thougths

 

12.

She’s very kind, she helps other people, she’s curious.

13.

-said “All right!” angrily, as if she had interrupted him.

-he has apprehension in his eyes

-it is I who am blocking the way, he thought.

-Septimus thought, and this gradual drawing together of everything to one centre before his eyes, as if some horror had come almost to the surface and was about to burst into flames, terrified him.

-the world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.

 

Analysis

Clarissa and Septimus is an extract taken from Mrs. Dalloway, written by Virginia Woolf. In Mrs. Dalloway internal and external reality coexist. External reality changes inner reality. The external reality is made up of one’s relationship, one’s interaction and also everyday reality. Inner reality is the aim of modernist fiction. The extract can be divided in five parts.

In the first part the protagonist goes to the florist shop to buy some flowers and the narrator describes the florist shop, the flowers and Mrs Pym. The part ends with the arrive of an elegant car.

The second part is about people’s reactions in front of the car. They’re curious to know who is the car’s owner.

In the third part is introduced a new character: Septimus Warren Smith. Septimus is never connected in what Mrs. Dalloway does. The two characters are very near, very close, because both have a horror inside.

In the fourth part there is a shift of the point of view. The omniscient narrator makes the reader know Septimus’s thought. Septimus perceives the world outside. He cannot distinguish external and internal reality.  He feels as he is the victim of the external world. He has got an overreaction. In the first parts there is a more dynamicity. In this part there are a metaphorical use of the external reality.

In the fifth and last part Septimus’s wife is introduced by a dialogue with him. The reader is able to know her description and her appearance. She’s Italian and this aspect underlines the feeling of a strange man. She’s embarrassed for the reaction of his husband and she’s worried about what the other people could think about them. In the extract there is an omniscient narrator, so the reader can know the characters’ thoughts. The reader is planged into the scene.