HW:26…Chapter 2
So after understanding what irony really is I found it hard to relate it to Virginia Woolf’s writing style. Her style of writing to me is very proper and “fragile”. By this I mean old, not really down to earth, but I guess that is why this book is such a hard read. That is also why it was so hard to find little sections of her speaking out with irony or “sarcasm”. I did end up finding a couple however. The first one is on page 32 where she surprisingly drew a professor’s face out of anger and didn’t really know why. Woolf stated, “The professor was nothing but a faggot burning on the top of Hampstead Heath.” She really only meant that she had finally gotten rid of the picture that was bothering her so much. Another one that I came across was on page 33. She was discussing what the headlines were in the evening paper, and stated “Somebody had made a big score in South Africa.” I would have thought that she meant with money or a prize type deal, really as I kept reading what she was talking about was a big death. Finally the third one I found was on page 36. Woolf is explaining how there is a looking-glass image is so important to men so that they can empower themselves. She states, “Take it away and man may die, like a drug fiend deprived of his cocaine.” She really is just saying they rely way too much on it.