Blog 6- "The Mark on the Wall"

 I think this story is very interesting. I like the way Woolf is able to create an entire story about something as trivial as a mark on the wall. Throughout the story, I found myself curious about the mark on the wall. I think the way Woolf draws the reader into the story really speaks to Woolf’s type of writing. Instead of appeasing the reader with a trivial mark on the wall, she draws the reader in and makes her or him a part of the story. As I would expect of the modernists, Woolf really chooses to focus on developing the character’s thoughts about the mark so it is almost as though the reader is looking at the mark as well. It makes it easy for the reader to become a part of the story.  
 I am not sure if this was exactly Woolf’s intention. I understand that as a modernist, the purpose of the writing is to let the reader understand the characters’ thoughts but I am not sure that for modernists the purpose was to relate and engage the reader. Instead, I see their purpose as being to enlighten the reader. Instead, I think this just comes as an extra bonus for their works. I think their approachability makes their works much more relatable and approachable and thus more enjoyable for the general audience.  
 In any event, I can see how Woolf’s work does bring us in. It reminds me of an effort to break from the mold of putting the story first and instead putting the reader first, the same way Eliot chooses to put remove the reader from the text.