HW 21 Responding to Virginia Woolf

Hi John,
After reading A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf I understand that it is a little difficult to follow but I will try to give you my interruption of what happens in chapter one. Virginia has been asked to talk about the topic Women and fiction. She goes on to state “a women must have money and a room of her own if she wants to write fiction”. I believe when she says this she means that a women needs her independence and needs to escape from everyone to be able to explore. Also in the first chapter Woolf is not able to go into the library without a male or a letter giving her permission. After being rejected she becomes angry and says she will never go back to the library. She later goes on to go to lunch where she feels it is different and not as same as the lunches before the war. This gets her thinking about how women aren’t very wealthy and don’t have many possessions. For example, when they get money they give it to there husbands which leaves them with nothing. I think English teachers might consider this important work because the way Woolf goes into detail is very important. She describes everything so elaborately it gives the reader the feeling that they are there in the story with her. And because of this it is difficult at times to understand what exactly she is trying to get at.