Struggles of Women

Through out this short story, one is able to see the struggles that women have had to endure through the lens of academia. Virgina Wolfe, uses the narrator to develop many ideologies as to why women have had to endure such hardships through out time. She develops this in many different ways, first by developing the idea that women are not permitted to do many things that men are allowed to do, such as simply walking on the grass rather than a gravel walk way. Wolfe, then furthers here argument by looking at the financial possibilities for women in the concentration of writing. She discusses the fact that many of the most famous writers were indeed men until a certain point in time. She writes that during the time of Shakespeare no woman would have ever been able to write that way. She then develops he idea that women’s rights have been changing by looking at several of the latest writers and the struggles that they have been able to bring forth such as female realist writers writing about a lesbian relationship.
While Virgina brings up many points as to the struggles of women in writing, I would like to question this in a very different light. The genre of sports seems to much the same as writing. As many women were unable to compete in any form of competition let alone to be considered some of the greatest athletes of their generation. Yet, has this changed today, I would argue that just as Wolfe has seen the writings of women go from none to the abilities to write about lesbian relations, women in the area of sport have gone from no recognition to being considered some of the greatest athletes of their generations. I would argue that, Virgina Wolfe, sheds light not only to the struggles of women during the time of her writing, she has shed light to a genre of women struggles in society.