Woolf was one of the foremost female writers of the 20th century. She managed to transform the modern English literature. Woolf wrote a magazine article called The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection. "One could not help looking" This makes it sound like if you hang a mirror somewhere where there is a lot of foot-traffic, people would of course look into it. It seems like people only care about their outside appearances and that they are always fussing about their look. If we keep just focusing about the way we look, we will miss part of the important things in life and no gain any morals. However, the social and psychological conditions make life bearable. Without our looks and friends and the drama, life would be boring.
A Room of One's Own talked of women and fiction and what that means. Woolf came up with possible explanations: "women and what they are like...the fiction they write...the fiction written about them...or all three inextricably mixed together" Woolf goes on to explain that she could not come up with a answer because it would be more of an opinion than a fact. The title of the essay comes from the line "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction" I didn't really understand this essay, it was about women and how they live, I think but I'm not too sure about it. It was just confusing to me.
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Jennifer,
OK comments on some of Woolf's works and words, but at times (especially in your first paragraph) very speculative and unsupported. The brief quotation you offer out of context from "The Lady in the Looking-Glass" does not adequately account for your interpretation.
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