HW 21: Dear Rascal

Virginia Woolf’s book A Room of One’s Own is a little hard to understand but let me try and help you out squirt. Virginia opens up with a description of what is to happen in the rest of the novel, and how she has to answer some of these questions she was asked to answer. The main question is women and fiction and she thinks about this idea in a couple of different of ways. She first visits the imaginary college of Oxbridge, this college is all men and women are not allowed in the library or the grass. She is making the point that women do not have rights at this sort of college and how upsetting and ridiculous this is. Virginia next has lunch at this college and realizes how nice it is, with the service and dessert, everything is perfect. Next she visits the college Fernham which is a women’s college that is located right near Oxbridge. This college is nothing compared to Oxbridge, this is because it is a women’s college and back in the 1920’s they were not as well equipped as men’s. Again this upsets Virginia and she then discusses the issue of women and why they were not able to leave anything for their children. I feel that she runs on about women and how they should be treated equally and how things should change for women in our society. This is good to hear and learn about, but Virginia seems to run on at some points and might become a little repetitive. Good luck Rascal and make sure you tell your teacher all the things you’ve learned from this chapter.