elfish in nature because while Woolf has the privilege of focusing on the shore of ideals many people are left in the wake of the wave. Woolf fails to realize or chooses to ignore in her writing that many women and all men are, out of necessity, still in survival mode. While Woolf complains about not being allowed into a library, men are being sent to war to be killed and a large portion of the population are still slaves to their families. Men, in particular, are drowned by the aims of privileged feminism. This does not discredit Woolf?s point that women are not equal to men when it comes to opportunities in the authorship of fiction, but it does put her essay in it?s proper context.It would be an unfortunate misinterpretation if a reader were to come away from ?A Room of One?s Own? with the impression that Woolf is advocating the idea that women are victims of male oppression. The statement is simply not true and this is not Woolf?s intended message. Although Woolf does describe trivial events such as not being allowed on a lawn with male students, these descriptions merely serve as examples of existing conditions or symbolism of a deeper meaning. The core of the essay is that both men and women must be androgynous in mind and grow out their sex roles hand in hand or else friction between the sexes will only get worse. Woolf does an amazing job of making her essay resentment proof. This is because Woolf understands, or at least senses, the true reasons behind male resentment. She builds her essay in such a way that it achieves it?s intended purpose of getting women especially, but men as well, to think about their gender roles.Male resentment of ?feminism? does not arise from a natural instinct in males to oppress female desires. Rather, it comes from men resenting the fact that women are in the position to change their roles, while they are stuck in theirs. The traditional female role makes women feel like the property of their male ...
