VLVL2 (9): "a room of her own" and WORK

[Tim Strzechowski]

It's certainly a compelling argument, but I suppose the issue I have with
Terrance's WORK angle regarding _Vineland_ is that I'm hard-pressed to find
*any* fictional text that in some form or fashion doesn't deal with WORK to
an extent, so I for one don't see what makes this angle unique ... yet.
Scan your bookshelves.  I randomly notice _The Merchant of Venice_ and
_Sister Carrie_ and _Lord of the Barnyard_ and _Moll Flanders_ and a
thousand others on mine.  What, if anything (in all seriousness), makes P's
treatment of this theme any different from, say, Steinbeck's or Dickens's or
Tolkien's (all of whom address WORK to some degree in their respective
fictions).

I've been watching the WORK angle unfold throughout this reading, but
haven't actually seen it develop.  Does it?  And does P put a unique spin on
an old tried n' true theme, found in virtually every other literary work?

I ask one and all.

Respectfully,

Tim



Terrance:

> Anyway, just in case you've not read it recently and have forgotten,
> Woolf's essay is about WORK. [...]