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For this assignment I have chosen to identify statements that contain irony. After reading the second chapter of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own.

On page 32. an example Ive found is at the bottom of the page, last paragraph.

“Whatever the reason, all these books, I thought, surveying the pile on the desk, are worthless for my purposes. They were worthless scientifically, that is to say, though humanly they were full of instruction, interest, boredom, and very queer facts about the habits of the Fiji Islanders. They have been written in the red light of emotion and not the white light of truth.”

I can relate this to irony in the sense that is is implying that when he states, ” in the red light of emotion and not the white light of truth” what this means is that the red symbolizing the worthlessness of his feelings is that the books lying around on his desk is worthless although there is that white light of truth that has a meaningful affect.

Another example I have found is on page 37 it states in the middle of the second paragrah,

“A solicitors letter fell into the post box and when I opened it I found that she had left me five hundred pounds a year for ever.” .. “I had made my living by cadging odd jobs from newspapers, by reading a donkey show here or a wedding there, I had earned a few pounds by addressing envelopes, reading to old ladies, making artificial flowers, teaching the alphabet to small children in a kindergarden. Such were the chief occupations that were opent to woman before 1918.”

I find this very ironic because as state that she had left her five hundred pounds, that is alot of money especially during this time period. It is close to unbeliveable.