Thinking About Virginia's Words

Writing is a very powerful thing. It's a therapy. It's a job. It's a hobby. It's so many things for people. And the reason that it's so important is because writing is something that can be personal. It can have a heavy weight on the people who read it. A love note perhaps, or even a suicide note. Some people don't care about their writing. They use their words to hurt other people and they don't think twice about what their words did to others. Someones writing can mean a million different things. One can have a completely different interpretation of what they read than someone else. And sometimes it's as simple as the cat jumped over the hat. Virginia Woolf's words in "The Death of Moth" could easily be labeled as the description of a moths long death. She described how it's "legs fluttered again" and how "he settled on the window ledge". Of course she's talking about a moth? Humans can't do that. But what if she was writing about herself? She could be writing about how "the struggle was over" for herself. She could be writing about how "death is stronger" than her. And she was. Those words and that short observation was her talking about her own pain and suffering. If Virginia was to take the place of the moth, the story becomes much darker and the words much heavier. Writers have reasons for every word they choose to put in their writing. Why did Virginia choose to write about the moths suffering instead of her own? What was she really trying to say? Why a moth? All these questions that will never have answers. It's up to the readers to answer them.