"A Room of One's Own"

I was very surprised when first reading Virginia Woolf’s, “A Room of One’s Own.” This was an interesting read for many reasons; it is a narrators view, of women and their role in society in the 1920’s, and especially how Virginia views money, a room of her own, or any women’s room for her own; and how this deals with women writings and there inequality to men. I believe that she wrote like this because when she was alive when women were treated this way... They were just getting the right to vote, so that says enough. In today’s standards of equality, men and women are the same for the most part. Woolf predicts that until these inequalities are rectified, women will remain in a lower class and their literary achievements will also be less important. Women today can actually write and make poetry and was one of her major themes and that shows the difference in the times. Also women are allowed to go to college and do many more things today than when she lived. She said women could not write because they do not have a room, because they do not have money, which makes him inferior to men because they don’t have privacy or time to write poems or books. Every chapter was so interesting because of the stories she would make up like Judith Shakespeare, William Shakespeare’s made up twin who wanted to write and make plays but couldn’t because she was a women. It just surprised me as how she related the room as a symbol for many larger issues, such as privacy, leisure time, and financial independence, each as a component of the inequalities between men and women. I believe that this writing does not hold up with today’s beliefs of equality, but is still very interesting to see what she thought and how she interpreted these inequalities of men and women.