A Short Analysis of Virginia Woolf's 'Monday or Tuesday' Everyday Words Taken from Famous If you found reading 'Monday or Tuesday' a disorienting experience, don't worry you're meant to. One of the things Woolf is exploring through this short story is disorientation, distraction, the difficult and perhaps foolish quest for truthful and honest representation of the world through one's writing. Even the title hints at this confusion and uncertainty: to the narrator, and perhaps to Woolf herself, today could be either Monday or Tuesday. Perhaps it doesn't matter. The everyday occurrences her short story describes ('everyday' being a key word for Woolf; again, the title 'Monday or Tuesday' comes into play here) are at once distractions from her greater goal of trying to write 'the truth' and the very embodiment of that truth.
Adeline Virginia Woolf è nata a Londra il 25 gennaio 1882 da due genitori che sono l'uno l'opposto dell'altro: il padre Sir Leslie Stephen è un autore mentre la madre Julia Prinsep-Stephen una bellissima modella. A differenza dei fratelli maschi che hanno l'opportunità di frequentare la scuola e in seguito l'Università di Cambridge, per la giovane Virginia spetta solo – come alla sorella – l'istruzione in casa. Nonostante questo, a soli venti anni Virginia Stephen diventa una scrittrice molto apprezzata e stimata,