Virginia Woolf

Texts and TraditionsStudent’s NameInstitutional AffiliationTexts and TraditionsIntroduction‘The Mark on the Wall’ is a short story by Virginia Woolf and was actually an experimental text that combined images, comments, and memories regarding the English culture (Woolf, 1921). This was in an effort to establish a sense of personal experience focused on ‘the mark on the wall.’ Although it is quite short for a story, Woolf has managed to utilize a stream-of-consciousness, its assertion of reality as subjective, its introspection, and its subtle commentary on males and females (Woolf, 1921). The narrative has been identified as a good illustration of early Modernist writing. Initially, it is not clear who the narrator truly is and some readers presume the narrator as Woolf herself. Others suggest that a comment the narrator makes about the male perspective, makes it a ‘him’ (Woolf, 1921). ‘The Mark on the Wall’ is perhaps among the greatest of short stories produced by Woolf towards the conclusion of the First World War and its immediate repercussion. In 1921, the author took it upon herself to publish the story within a volume of books called