A Room Of One's Own

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non-argumentative. To a certain degree, she is arguing, or making a case; however, this is only through presenting the facts and demonstrating how she came to her conclusions, which, a surface reading may suggest, are merely that a woman needs five hundred pounds a year and a room of her own to write. What other conclusions may be found in the work exist below the surface.
She accuses Charlotte Bronte, whom she regards as a genius, of falling into this trap of wanting to preach or proclaim an injury. She reads in Bronte an “awkward break,” a “jerk,” and an “indignation” that insures that “she will never get her genius expressed whole and entire. Her books will be deformed and twisted”. These breaks disrupt the natural rhythm and integrity of her work. She further states that Bronte “will write of herself where she should write of her characters”. This kind of unwelcome preaching, this sudden appearance of indignation, disturbs the sense of the “real” that Bronte is trying to create in her work.
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