Three Guineas

Three Guineas

Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas was the easiest to read out of all the novels that we were assigned over the course of the semester. In some ways it was, what I never thought I would say of one of Virginia Woolf’s works, too easy. The reason is because it was a bit repetitive. It seemed like the narrator kept telling and re telling every decision. They did have valid points. The man’s undying efforts to sell the idea of investing in the war efforts ran on and on. While there were funny lines and jabs at the male sex, it could have been shortened. Her decision to give to a school in the end of the chapter was hilarious. It was as if she was telling the man that she would support the school in hope of educating other to be less like him. A woman was not thought to be a suitable scholar in the time period yet; she proves that she cannot be sold on his war efforts. War, which was going on in much of the time that Woolf was writing, proved to serve as a unifying source for the community. However, she always placed education above war. The only thing that I did not like about this work was the continued repetition throughout the novel. Woolf probably did this though to prove her point, which she definitely accomplishes. She also might have felt that the repetition was needed in order for ordinary people to understand her writing purpose.

(I am sorry and embarrassed that this post is so short. I forgot that I hadn’t done it yet and realized you were closing posts at midnight tonight.)