Reading A Room of One's Own (1929)

"How do you feel about what the character of Virginia Woolf is saying?"

Virginia’s character evokes the familiar emotions associated with exclusion. This character that Virginia has created may have been a work of fiction, but as mentioned, she brings out the truths that lurk beneath her society, which fails to be recognised. Despite all these observations and thoughts rushing through her mind like her fellow scholars, she is disregarded as an equal due to her sex. Her frustration is evident throughout the scenario in which she is locked out of the library as she is a woman. The library symbolises her academic growth being stunted by those who surround her. This essay feels as though you are directly diving into the mind of the one that wrote it. The vivid imagery encaptures the audience’s immediate attention to whatever the narrator has to say. Whatever she has to say is usually met with a sense of emergency. If her thoughts aren’t heard or read, you will regret missing out.

The narrator’s constant state of thoughts lets us in on her time as she begins to describe the nature of war and how it affected the poetry of its time. The cat without the tail resembled the lack of a fundamental feeling in the conversation around the narrator during luncheon. She then recalls a humming that is a similar fashion to a luncheon she attended before the war. This leads to how the chatter and poetry differed before the war. The cat without the tail could have been a symbol of the result of the war. The chatter does not remain the same, nor does the romantic poetry which was now replaced by raw and heavy emotions.