Virginia Woolf discuss how women’s place in society can be shown by the difference of the two meals she received when she went on college visits (one to a male college one to a female college) she use her tone and the diction she uses. In every culture you can see a correlation between how high you are on the totem pole and the food you eat. The upper class may eat things like caviar, lobster and to tap it all off maybe some wine or Champaign. Whereas the lower class may have ramen noodles and tap that off with some Pepsi. This holds true with gender also especially in the 1920’s where this essay most likely took place. Woolf uses diction in two extreme ways that shows the contrast between the male’s lunch and the female’s lunch. The male’s
