HW 21 Dear Sissy

Dear Little Sister,
A Room of One’s Own is definitely a difficult read even I had some trouble reading the first chapter. In the first chapter the character, Mary, is heavily contemplating the importance of women and fiction. She talks about walking by a river and through a college and how she is inferior to the man she comes across. She compares two poets and their poems about war. A lot happens in the first chapter but the most important is the connection of women and fiction and also a woman having a room of her own to write this fiction. I think all this is meant to show the inferiority of women to men. Men can have money and a room of their own and women cannot. Mary shows her anger towards this idea in chapter one. Your teacher may find this important because it’s a lesson in the history of gender issues. Women were barely allowed to right because they weren’t as good as men. It is important to know what gender issues were like back in the early 1900s and this book is a really a good piece of literature to show this. I think this book is difficult and confusing, and I had some difficulty with the reading as well, but it’s an important essay of it’s time.