Étude de Mrs Dalloway : temporalité et discours indirect libre
Analyze the following excerpt from Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (1925) and evaluate how the narrative structure disrupts traditional temporal flow. 'Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. For Lucy had her work cut out for her. The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer's men were coming. And then, thought Clarissa Dalloway, what a morning—a fresh, crack of a wave; chill, crisp as if issued to children on a beach. What a lark! What a plunge!' Compare the objective chronological time () of the domestic preparations with the subjective psychological time () of Clarissa's inner thoughts. Discuss how the author uses free indirect discourse to bridge the gap between these two temporal experiences.



