HW 21 "Chapter One Response to A Room of One's Own"

Cassie-
After reading your last email you sent it seems like your having a bit of trouble with the understanding of the book, Virginia Woolf- “A Room of One’s Own”. I’ve read the first chapter and I can try to help you with my perspective and understanding of the story thus far. I’m not positively sure if I am all that correct on what is going on because it is a difficult book to understand, but I can try.
Chapter one starts off by discussing Virginia Woolf. She was asked to discuss her opinion on Women and Fiction. She had many different ideas-“women and what they are like, women and the fiction that they write, or women and the fiction written about them”. She came to the conclusion "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." The narrator of the story follows this by having the story take place sitting on the side of the river. She sits and contemplates what Women and Fiction mean to her. The narrator converses about a story she had remembered reading about. When she goes to the library they say, “ladies are only admitted to the library if accompanied by a Fellow of the College or furnished with a letter of introduction." Throughout the rest of chapter one, she describes different things that are taking place around her. This includes the church, and meals at the University. She also starts to think about why women are “poor” and don’t seem like they are created equal. She thinks how different things would be if her mother and women in her family before her had money. The chapter ends by her thinking why “Mrs. Seton had no money to leave us” and also on the effects of poverty and wealth have on the mind.
Some people might consider this an important piece of work because the story although it is difficult to read, it makes you think. It makes you understand more and if you don’t understand what they are trying to say you can look deeper into it. As it says on the back of the book, this story has a legit meaning. “Women must have a fixed income and a room of their own in order to have the freedom to create”.
In my opinion, I think this book so far seems pretty complicated. I thought it was difficult to understand and felt that I had to keep going back and re-reading sections because I couldn’t remember what was going on. It is only the first chapter so I think that by reading more of the book I will get adjusted to the style of the writing and be able to comprehend a little easier than I have.