Get Your Own Room

 The list of events that we learned in class really shocked me. I am also in a Women’s Studies class and learning about what a short time ago women were done an injustice is sometimes hard. This being said, I see why Dr. Sparks is so enthralled with Woolf because she speaks out as a woman in a time when women’s voices are often stifled. Fortunately, she had a room of her own. I often wonder how seriously she was taken, and if her medical state affected the way people perceived her reading. Did she ever lose credibility because of her mental state? Anywho…
 I always enjoy reading Woolf’s overly opinionated works. I can definitely appreciate the contradictions and confusions she plays up in her work. I think in the first chapter of A Room of One’s Own, Woolf plays with the readers mine and perception of truth so that she can mix up the truth and the lies. By doing this, I think she is playing up the untruths as truths, almost adding fuel to the fire of injustice. Also, I think the idea of dinner to represent the difference in the way women and men are nourished is very clever. I really like the way she presents the dinner in such stark contrast. I think this difference in nourishing reminds me of the canon of literature. In the same way women aren’t fed academically or literally, nor are they fed mentally. I think women are ignored in this society and instead become simply objects and subjects. As objects, they can be owned and as subjects they can be observed but never fully respected. This correlates with the ideas of the entire novel.