Martha’s Comments (group member since Oct 16, 2019)

Martha’s comments from the A Season for Woolfs: A Virginia Woolf Reading Challenge group.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...

The 92Y podcast has recently released an interview with Greta Gerwig. She talks mostly about her work directing Little Women, and includes a few comments about Louisa May Alcott and Virginia Woolf, and the life of a woman writer in the 19th century.

I hope I have successfully provided a link to this podcast episode!

I’m pretty sure I just read “We should be nailed like stoats to the stable door.”

Here's what's been rattling around in my head this morning.

I keep thinking about how VW gives us an immersion in the idea that we all are super important, and super insignificant... all at the same time.

Jacob is a precious son with all kinds of social potential, attractive to men and women of all stripes... and a shallow hick who ends up cannon fodder.
Greece is the grand birthplace of western civilization... and a collection of ruins that looks sort of like the Cornish coast.
The colonels and captains and admirals are heroic warriors... and feeble old guys with limps and disappointing marriages.
Mrs. Flanders is a canny operator... and a stultified widow, dependent on the men around her.

And it's like Mrs. Flanders grapples with all that at the end with Jacob's shoes - one minute they are very useful, very personal objects... to garbage [or relics].