HW 21: Dear Sista Sal

Dear Sista Sal,
Reading Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own can be hard to understand with its complexity, don’t be fooled by it’s density, but rather look for the point behind it. Woolf explains through narration about her thoughts on Women and fiction. She explains right off her thesis that she believes that in order for women to write fiction they need money and a room of their own. (Woolf 4) Woolf addresses this question by trying to change people’s opinion that women have automatically become inferior to men. Woolf uses dramatized interruptions of women during their thoughts to show that women are constantly interrupted, held back, and unable to continue their thought processes, freedom, and what they want to do. This is where a private room comes into play in Woolfe’s thesis. Women need a private room to write fiction where they are uninterrupted and can think what they want. What Woolf wants the reader, that’s you sista Sal, to understand is that women being denied the right to think is part of the educational culture that has restricted the range of a women’s intellectual exposure. Not only this but throughout chapter one Woolf’s narrator has not only been denied her right to her imagination but the right to go certain places such as the library, the grassy yard, or only allowed on a thin sidewalk. These are examples of women not being able to have the freedom of a female mind. How can a female write fiction when she can’t use fiction in her own life?
Your teacher might have considered chapter one of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own an important reading for you because it resembles what women went through and how far they’ve come. Women have worked so hard to have the status that we have today. We can write fiction, we can have an imagination, and we can be treated equally, for the most part.
I think the reading was dense and hard to understand at some points, but it helped to reflect on what I just read. Overall I understood the point of the chapter and I hope I helped ya out!
Your sis,Emaline