anessa's happiness impossible to bear Vanessa's indifference to Virginia's state of mind contributed to her grief and subsequent mental breakdown At the death of Sir Leslie, Virginia lost her father and her sister, the two people closest to her. (Bond 111).Their deteriorating relationship continued to worsen with each new quarrel. Each time they would argue, Virginia would suffer a breakdown, and Vanessa would reconcile with Virginia. When Vita and Virginia met, she and Vanessa went their separate ways. The sisters continued to have no contact while the relationship between Vita and Virginia prospered, but when Vita would leave her, the sisters would make amends yet again. Their relationship remained unstable because of the expectations placed on the relationship by Virginia. By failing to fill the role of mother that Virginia required, and by not being psychologically present for her at the death of their father, Vanessa was woven into the fabric of Virginia's breakdowns by not being emotionally available to Virginia, Vanessa indirectly helped her to precipitate Virginia's homosexual love affair and the resulting indifference to Virginia's pain contributed to her grief and subsequent suicide. (Bond 109)Virginia portrayed her relationship with Vanessa through her literary work, The Waves. A character in the story, Susan, presents Vanessa as an "uninhibited child of nature, as a creature of the wild, independent of the demands of civilization" (Bond 110), which was how Virginia viewed her sister. The hard ships between Virginia and her sister may have arisen because Virginia asked too much of her sister, Vanessa could not accept the responsibility asked of her. Insanity did not stop Virginia Woolf from achieving great accomplishments, including feminism. As one of the earliest feminists, Woolf's role in feminism was due to relationships with others throughout her life. Woolf shied away from feminist groups, yet...
