Read excerpt 1 from Mrs. Dalloway, and then answer the following question.
While reading the excerpt, you might have noticed that Woolf often uses strings of multiple (and often disparate) phrases separated by
commas or semicolons. Because they do not contain a main clause or even a verb, these lines are not sentences.
What is the specific effect of this technique in the lines quoted below? What effects does this technique create in the work in general? Does
the technique make the description in the text seem more natural, or does it make the description seem contrived? (To answer this
question, consider what the author is describing.) Develop an argument to support your position.
In people's eyes, In the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich
men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; In the triumph and the Jingle and the strangle high singing of some aeroplane
overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.

Read the excerpt from act 3 of a doll’s house. mrs. linde: you seemed to me to imply that with me you might have been quite another man. krogstad: i am certain of it. mrs. linde: is it too late now? krogstad: christine, are you saying this deliberately? yes, i am sure you are. i see it in your face. have you really the courage, then—? mrs. linde: i want to be a mother to someone, and your children need a mother. we two need each other. nils, i have faith in your real character—i can dare anything together with you. krogstad [grasps her hands]. , , christine! now i shall find a way to clear myself in the eyes of the world. ah, but i forgot— how does the conflict in this passage develop a theme? mrs. linde creates a conflict by promising something she cannot give to krogstad, which develops the theme that empty promises can destroy relationships. krogstad continues the conflict by choosing clearing his name over having a life with mrs. linde, which develops the theme that you must often choose yourself over others. krogstad creates a conflict by deceiving mrs. linde about his intentions, which develops the theme that, in love, actions speak louder than words. mrs. linde resolves the conflict by committing to a new life with krogstad, which develops the theme that new beginnings are always possible.