Summary Of A Room Of One's Own By Virginia Woolf

Reader Response: While reading A Room of One’s Own it is very clear that Virginia Woolf is devoted to her work and the status women with literature. There is one point in which she talks about how women have been, “...looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size (36).” Woolf believes that women have been seen as inferior to men when it comes to literature. She continues on with the fact that men have created the stigma that women will always be perceived as lesser than men and that men will always have the advantage over women. She uses Mussolini and Napoleon as examples to prove this point. This probably would be because men feel so insecure that they had to create a social pyramid that would place men as stronger, more powerful and higher than women. Maybe she is implying that modern day societies actually depended on females more than males in order to survive? It is fascinating to see that Woolf also uses so …show more content…
The essays all have the same topic which is women and fiction and how women can prove that they are just as good writers as men. Throughout the book the message that was propelled out towards the reader was of these very truths: that women were seen as inferior to men in every aspect of life. Numerous times the idea that, “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction (4),” is brought up in the text and in the end Wolf explains why a woman should have money and their own living space to make it as high up the social ladder that men are. Woolf explains that a woman in early nineteenth century did not truly have her own money because all of her earnings went to her husband, and that a woman was never able to have alone time that would permit her to write. There was always a disruption, such as the children or housework that kept them from