The Anecdote Virginia Wolf Summary
In the anecdote by Virginia Wolf, the author reflects on men’s oppression affecting women’s intellectual pursuit in the twentieth century. Employing metaphors and simile, she exemplifies women succumbing to restrictions and boundaries placed upon them in their education.
Wolf utilizes metaphors describing her thoughts and manifests what men had done to those thoughts. On a bank with willows in fine October weather, she compares her contemplation to “the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water.” Like a fish being caught, reflections are processed the same way letting “its line down into the stream” and “the cautious hauling of it in, and the careful laying of it out.” However, if the conglomeration of an idea is insignificant,
Wolf utilizes metaphors describing her thoughts and manifests what men had done to those thoughts. On a bank with willows in fine October weather, she compares her contemplation to “the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water.” Like a fish being caught, reflections are processed the same way letting “its line down into the stream” and “the cautious hauling of it in, and the careful laying of it out.” However, if the conglomeration of an idea is insignificant,