>>What is missing in conventional novels?
Conventional novels miss what we are looking for, that is to say life or spirit, truth or reality

>>How does Virginia Woolf describe life?
First Virginia Woolf does not describe what life is, but what it's like. According to her, life is a not a series of gig-lamps simmetrically arranged; life is similar to a luminous halo composed of a myriad of impressions.

>>What does Woolf mean by "the life of Monday or Tuesday"?
I believe Mrs Woolf uses "the life of Monday or Tuesday" in order to evidence that every day is different from the previous' one because everyday we receive different impressions.

>>What is the task of the novelist and how should fiction be written?
Throught the extract Virginia Woolf criticises the traditional form of writing a fiction because it doesn't convey to the common reader the sense of the real life. In Woolf's opinion, novelists should be slaves of the convention, they shouldn't be controll by a tyrant: the writer should be a free man who composes what he chooses and what he wants, someone who base their works upon their feelings and impressions and not upon standards or restrictive ruls.

>>Can you see any similarity between Woolf's ideas about fiction and Monet's Impressionist painting?
As Monet, an Impressionist artist, tries to portray the reality following his psychological perceptions, at the same time Virginia Woolf believes novelists should writer following the myriad of impression they receive every day.