Virginia Woolf was from the beginning a modernist, but she rejected the cannon of the novelist and for this reason she was considered materialist like Arnold Bennett and John Galsworthy.
In fact she thought that only subjectivity and consciousness of the character could convey the truth of woman experience and truth of life.
Thank of this theory she created novels that rendered the frown of consciousness.
Besides, flashback and flash-forward are domains for which she conveys the inner life of their characters.
In addition, she adopted the stream consciousness technique, given truth free indirect style and  the shift of point of view.

Virginia’s idea of life is well described in “The Common Reader”  where she invites the reader to look within at her life.
In particular she wants to examine what happens in an ordinary day (the life of Monday and Thursday): she explains that mind receives impression of different nature.
According to the writer life cannot return to the reader in a series of gig-lamps symmetrically arranged.
She concludes the essay underlining the concept that novelist aim is to convey the unknown spirit of the consciousness.

Virginia Woolf is remembered as one of the great innovations of modern fiction. In particular her experiment of point of view (moment of being) have influenced many writer .
She thought that there are two kind of experience: a moment of being and a moment of not being.
The second appeared to be a moments that the individual is not consciously even as she/he experiences them.
The writer, in fact, notes that people performed routine task such as walking and shopping without thinking about. This part of her life is not leave consciously, but it is incorporated in “a kind of non-descript cotton-wool”.
The intensity of feelings is the only thing that separates the two moments at the contrary of the nature of actions.