HW:21 Responding to Woolf

Dear Lori,
I know you had a lot of trouble with the reading you had to do in Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own,” but I’m here to help you understand what you read and hopefully feel comfortable enough with the material to continue reading on. To start off, this chapter is about the importance of women and fiction. It starts with a narrator who is sitting and wondering about women and fiction. She talks about all these thing women are not aloud to do like, walk across the grass, walk into a library alone with out a man at the university. This certainly shows how women were treated. Then the narrator goes on to see a cat without a tail and that seems really odd because she keeps jumping around but the cat makes her think back to a time before the war. Basically, this chapter is talking about how certain social classes have changed so much over time, especially women. This chapter talks about women and fiction and how the author states that "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." This gives the reader a chance to think about this and see how far women have come over time. I hope you have a better understanding of the material, I know it was difficult but keep reading and I’m sure it’ll start to click!

Love, Amy