Dear Trevor,
I can completely understand why you don’t understand this book, A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf. In chapter 1 she mentions that her thesis is “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction,” if I could possibly define this chapter in simple terms, I would say that the chapter is very important but it strays from the thesis a bit. In chapter one Woolf takes us as readers into another area and tells us about fiction. In the story the Woolf begins to tell about “Oxbridge,” she tells us about how woman are treated in this certain time frame. She mentions that woman are not allowed to walk on the grass, and that they are not allowed into the library without a male figure present. Woolf then goes on to describe how the luncheon went at the college and she begins to compare it to a luncheon post-war time. She compares the two using poetry to show how much things have changed since before and after the war. At the end of the chapter Woolf talks about poverty and the effects it has in our lives.
Hope it helps,
Love Cj.
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Yes...The comparison between Oxbridge (the men's university) and Fernham (the women's college) and the meal the narrator eats on each campus demonstrates that women do not have the same access to education, tradition, and money that men do.
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