Question

Pick out the sentences from the story which describe the ambience of the party at Mrs. Dalloway’s place.

Answer 1

Sentences from the story which describe the ambience of the party at Mrs. Dalloway’s place are:

1. … as she took her cloak off and Mrs. Barnet, while handing her the mirror and touching the brushes and thus drawing her attention, perhaps rather markedly, to all the appliances for tidying and improving hair, complexion, clothes, which existed on the dressing table…
2. …as she greeted Clarissa Dalloway, she went straight to the far end of the room, to a shaded corner where a looking-glass hung and looked.
3. …oh these men, oh these women, all were thinking…
4. Rose herself being dressed in the height of the fashion, precisely like everybody else, always.
5. …slouched across the room, positively slinking, as if she were a beaten mongrel, and looked at a picture, an engraving.
6. “It’s so old-fashioned,” she said to Charles Burt, making him stop (which by itself he hated) on his way to talk to someone else.
7. (“Rather ruffled?” he said and went on to laugh at her with some woman over there)
8. Then Mrs. Holman, seeing her standing there, bore down upon her.
9. …all the time she could see little bits of her yellow dress in the round looking-glass which made them all the size of boot-buttons or tadpoles…
10. …if she had been dressed like Rose Shaw, in lovely, clinging green with a ruffle of swansdown, she would have deserved that…
11. Mabel Waring, left alone on the blue sofa, punching the cushion in order to look occupied, for she would not join Charles Burt and Rose Shaw, chattering like magpies and perhaps laughing at her by the fireplace