Woolf

 From my previous experiences of learning about Woolf, nothing that I read surprised me. I did find the bio interesting because I had forgotten that she had such a checkered and hectic life. I think that definitely says something about the nature of her works, as she struggled to create works that challenged the lack of women in so many realms of the literary world. I’ve always appreciated the way Woolf is able to tie together the fiction and the nonfiction world in order to make a point.  
 In her short story about modernism, it was very interesting that she called modernists materialists. Instead of considering them to be deep people, being able to truly look past the defining boundaries of the past, she sees them as self absorbed in a sense. I am a bit confused by the use of the word materialist.  
 Woolf is amusing, however, in the way she feels that modernists/ materialists are concerned with fitting a certain mold, even though modernism is supposed to be just the opposite. In Eliot’s poem, I can see how he may have been forced to bring in a love interest, although that may not have been his initial purpose. This criticism of the literary world makes me wonder why Woolf wanted so much to be a part of it. Her constant challenging of the ideas associated with the literary world makes me question her place in it.