March Monthly Connection

The issue presented in A Room of One's Own is the issue of women and their lack of and need of money. Woolf writes of women's desperation for money. She writes of this point in relation to women's education and women's authoring of books. Woolf proposes that women need money in order to compose worthwhile works of literature. She also touches on the plight of women's colleges and their lack of money. Men's colleges survive on endowments from alumni. However, women have no alumni as very few women have attended college before the generation that Woolf speaks of. This means that there are no generous endowments from alumni, instead the women have to fundraise and make their own money to support their college.

I don't think that this issue is pertinent to today's society. Women no longer have to fight for money for their colleges. For one thing, there are very few women's colleges left in the country and for another thing, there are now women alumni to give endowments. For the other issue with women and money concerning women authors and their need of money, this is again not pertinent because women can make their livings in other ways fairly feasibly which would give them the capital to write their own literature.

This situation is loosely relatable to me because I live in the present-day where women are coming to equality with men. Most of the time, the issues that affect men also affect women as well. There are very few sex-exclusive problems in the world anymore. True, the sexes react differently and each issue affects the sexes differently, however, each issue affects both sexes.

In my opinion, A Room of One's Own proved its point about women and literature, but it was excessive in the examples and metaphors that it used to the point where the book was an example of overkill. It is also consistent with my opinion that none of the issues that Woolf presented concerning women and money are pertinent to today's society.