Stream Of Consciousness In Virginia Woolf's The Common Reader

In this passage, Molly describes how well-endowed Boylan is, and then attributes it his eating a lot of oysters. Nevertheless, she was not entirely satisfied from the sexual experience. She ponders on the irony of the whole thing. The man had the largest phallus she had ever encountered, but because of his lack of stamina or “spunk.”, he is the one who receives all the pleasure from his penis, apparently because he climaxed before she had her own. There is certainly order in this passage that reflects the idea of interior monologue. Even without punctuation, one can fairly easily follow the thought process and the reflective aspect that comes at the end of this particular thought. None of the examples utilized here thus far have not conveyed

Stream of Consciousness as a modernist tool conveys real life scenarios. Virginia Woolf considers this in her novel The Common Reader. “Life is…a

Virginia Woolf demonstrates this idea in her short story “The Mark on the Wall” Before the unnamed narrator comes to the realization that the mark on the wall is a snail, (and it’s important to note this realization comes by happenstance rather investigation), the narrator rolls out a series of random thoughts seemingly to help him forget the reality around him. He at one points starts with the seemingly random thought, “Wood is a pleasant thing to think about. It comes from a tree; and trees grow, and we don’t know how they grow…” (53). The statement that “Wood is a pleasant thing to think about” suggests a deliberate transition from his previous unpleasant organized thoughts to random inconsequential ones. In the previous thought, the narrator made the observation that in life a person desires something to real to grasp onto. “Thus, walking from a midnight dream of horror, one hastily turns on the light and lies quiescent, worshipping the chest of drawers, worshipping solidity, worshipping reality, worshipping the impersonal world which is a proof of some existence other than ours. That is what one wants to be sure of…” (53). James Harker on this point made the observation that “For Woolf, the modern literary experience derives from the nature of the faculties of perception, the tenuous points of connection - and disjunction -