The Mark on the Wall | Characters
In her efforts to find or create another narrative mode than the one which she felt exercised a tyranny of demands (e.g. a plot) Woolf suggested that a writer might "Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day." This approach was in direct contrast to the novel in which a protagonist (usually male) has a series of adventures and performs various heroic feats, and it follows Woolfs efforts to write a kind of composite alternative history in which the domestic, the private, and the feminine took precedence. The only character in "The Mark on the Wall" is a person engaged in an...
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