The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf (EPUB)

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Woolf finds a small mark on the wall and transforms it into a deluge of thoughts – perfectly connected, exquisitely disjointed – that grabs one’s soul and tears it asunder, just to repair it by the end of her story, of her interior monologue, leaving the scars of memory and possibility forever burning inside one’s head.

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⭐She thinks she saw the mark on the wall, for the first time, in the middle of January. She was smoking a cigarette by the fire, looks up and remembers seeing three chrysanthemums in a small round glass bowl on the mantelpiece and a steady flow of yellow light on the pages of her book.The mark is small, black, and round on the white wall. It’s six or seven inches above the mantelpiece. She decides it’s too big to be made by a nail, and too round.As she looks at the mark, in a certain light, it looks to be projecting from the wall, not entirely circular and casting a shadow. Her mind continues to wander to this and that, one topic shifting into another, and back to the mark on the wall, time and time again.Then, suddenly, she feels distracted…I love this incredible twenty-one-minute piece of wonder by Virginia Woolf. I love the beautifully simple language she uses to describe the rapidly changing pictures the woman sees in her thoughts. There is a feel of tranquility and rest, yet there’s an anxiousness that is quickly breaking the calm.The audiobook narrator, Teresa Gallagher, is perfect as she makes all the right stops, starts, sighs, and voice inflections giving expressive movement to the woman and her inner thoughts. How many times can I listen to this and never tire of it? Countless times.It starts and ends with “the mark on the wall” and you’ll never guess what it turns out to be, not in a million years. I highly recommend! 4.25 stars!

⭐I received an entire different product than advertised. The cover is bright orange, and the text is a printed version of someone’s annotated document. Scratch marks and scribbles all over the pages. But it is the full text!

⭐This download was full of typos. You guys really do need to do quality checks– I know you only charged $1.79 for Mark on the Wall, but this is Virginia Woolf! She deserves better one would think…

⭐required for class reading

⭐“I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.”Virginia Woolf’s “The Mark on the Wall” is a very cerebral, and introspective short story that is incredibly unique in its experimental form and structure, definitely a characteristic of the Modernist movement. What I found very thought-provoking and interesting is how Woolf establishes a symbol in the physical sense, in this case a mark on the wall, and utilizes this symbol as a catalyst to dig deep into the internal workings of the narrator’s mind.On paper, on the surface, the story is quite simple: a woman, who sees a mark on a wall, begins a train of thought about various topics, subjects, and issues. While philosophizing in a stream of conscious style process, she is interrupted several times in her thoughts, and then shifts in her thoughts towards another path. Although there is not a whole lot taking place externally from the outside in terms of “action”, internally there is a wealth of introspective thinking from the narrator’s point of view as we (as readers) “see” ideas from her perspective.I think one of the joys of reading a story like this one is that there is room for quite a bit of interpretation, thought, reflection and analysis. It is like a puzzle that one must put together through careful scrutiny. In one way, the story is just simply a story about thinking, about the thought processes one goes through. In another sense, there is this consistent notion from the inner workings of the narrator that one cannot—and should not—judge something simply from appearance or from its surface level form (which seems to coincide and parallel with the elusiveness of identifying what the “mark” is exactly in the story). In yet other ways, and perhaps looking at the story with a more critical eye, this story is about much deeper issues from the narrator’s meditations and thoughts: gender, roles, expectations, religion, among other key issues.Woolf’s “The Mark on the Wall” is most definitely a complex, contemplative story, one well worth reading and coming back to.

⭐This was a very entertaining short story. Virginia Woolf conveys her frustration with the patriarchal system of men while supporting the beauty and wonder of nature. Specifically, trees that grow and benefit so many, not excluding women.

⭐great read

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