Virginia Woolf's The Mark On The Wall

Virginia Woolf's story The Mark on the Wall is very hard to interpret what the author is really trying to persuade. Although David Grau II explained that "she appears to be going deep into the recesses of her mind and reflecting on the meaning of her life, and is using the mark on the wall as her sort of focus point." In which in this case is true since she uses her style of writing of "stream-of-consciousness narration, interior monologue, and meditations on reality, life, history, and thought itself" as Professor Doug David explained. As I was reading The Mark on the Wall, I took the story more so as an imagination of how we view life around us in this world. People have different aspects of how we view and interpret things around us. For Virginia Woolf, just one mark can symbolize many different meanings: "Yes, one could imagine a very pleasant world. A quiet, spacious world, with flowers so red and blue in the open fields. A world without professors or

Although, throughout the reading, he gives an imagination of how he feels about her and the sense of how he himself is feeling: "I imagined that I bore my chalice safely through a throng of foes. Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires." (Joyce 2280). Through this, any human has an imagination of how love supposed to be. Love works in mysterious ways so that no man can know for himself. As for James Joyce, he may be trying to find soul searching for love or someone to hear him out on his