Answers pag 531-532: The Common Reader by Virginia Woolf

>>In Virginia Woolf's opinio, traditional novels, were not suitable to convey the essence of life. The writers seems constrained, not by his own free will but by some powerful and unscrupulous tyrant who controls him to provide a plot, comedy, tragedy and love interest.

>>Virginia Woolf sees life as something negative, a time in which we suspect momentary doubts, spasm of rebellion as the pages fill themselves in the usual way.

>> Virginia Woolf using the expression ”the life of Monday or Tuesday“ refers to an ordinary day and an ordinary mind. The mind receives a myriad impressions: trivial, fantastic, evanescent or engraved with the sharpness of steel.

>>The task of the novelist is to see life not as a series of carriage lamps symmetrically arranged but as a luminous circle of light, something surronding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. A moment in which a writer is a free man and not a slave, when he could write what he chose and he could base his work upon his own feeling.

>>In my opinion Woolf's idea about fiction and Monet's Impressionist painting are similar in fact both have a different view of the present. Monet combines different strokes and colors to create special lighting effects. Virginia Woolf compares life to a luminous halo, a semi-trasparent envelope surronding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. Both, therefore,express two different concepts through the image of light.