HW 21: Dear Taylor

Dear Taylor,
I agree with you 100% that this book is extremely difficult to read, not to mention that the beginning of books are never very intersting so it makes it harder to keep reading and comprehend what is happening. In the first chapter, the narrarator introduces herself as "Mary Beton, Mary Seton, Mary Carmicheal or by any name you please-it is not a matter of any importance". She is basically saying that knowing her name is not imporant because it is going to be her that is known not necesarily by her name. She starts by discussing women and fiction and what is can mean. "A women must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction" (Woolf 4). What she means by this quote is that fiction is unsolved, it has many mysterys that anyone can interpret the stories how they want to and everyone person will do so differently. "Mary" attends a luncheon, at which she overhears a man humming a song about women and war but not in a positive light, which offends her. When hearing the song being hummed she thinks back to how at college, Oxbridge and Fernah, the women are inferior to men the women cannot even enter the library without a letter allowing them or the company of a student at fernham. After the luncheon, she then goes back and thinks to herself what she should write about, women and fiction but what to actually write about. Basically this chapter talks about the difference between men and women and how men were shown to be more powerful and important then the women back in these days. I as well am having a hard time understanding the completely basis of the chapter but I hope I helped you out!