Virginia Woolf, “A Room of One’s Own”
(336-371)
One passage that sticks out to me
is: “All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point-a woman
must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that, as
you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true
nature of fiction unsolved” (339). This stuck out to me because it is like it
is the beginning of what the rest of this story covers: Woman and the difference
in attitude towards them and men. It also stuck out because of how it somehow
foreshadows the rest of the story. One last reason it stuck out to me is
because of the problems women had to face in fiction, like in this case, where
woman struggle with inferiority to men. This struggle can be seen in the words “a
woman must have money and a room of her own” (339). This pertains to the fact
that woman of fiction were considered to produce works inferior to that of men
and rarely get the chance to do anything because they are denied that chance.
Women were believed to stick to household duties and stay and care for the
husbands. So these words are ironic in the fact that women are not given the
chance to actually earn their own money and even obtain a room of their own.
Women are rejected this chance so they have no way of getting ahead and specifically
in this story, women of fiction cannot get ahead. Therefore, this passage plays
into the rest of the story about the difference in women and men and even
brings light to this issue in societies view towards women where they see women
as inferior in this case. This passage gives us readers a chance to see into
these problems and learn why that is her opinion.
"A Room
of One’s Own". The Norton Anthology World Literature, Third Edition, Vol.
D. Martin Puchner. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. Pages 336-371.
Fairfield Medium with the display set in Aperto.
Hello Kaylee!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your thesis on how a woman's role was fixed and not to be challenged. I liked that you drew attention to the inferiority of women compared to men. I think that it is interesting that a women was not meant to have her own space and that the space she should fill was the mold created for her.