Death of a Moth Reading

 In Virginia Woolf’s “Death of a Moth” she describes an instance where she notices a little moth flying around. She describes the moth in such intricate detail, the reader becomes interested in what is the importance of the seemingly insignificant creature. As a reader, this story made me think about little things that I normally wouldn’t notice, like a moth “dancing” around. In the story she uses such detail, not only with the moth but everything going on around her. As a writer, the story made me notice her extremely detailed writing style. She used similes and metaphors to describe the moth and its actions and told every last detail in order to give the reader an accurate description of what was going on in the scene, providing them with a clear picture of what was happening. In this story I think Virginia Woolf does an excellent job providing the reader with a clear picture of the scene she was observing, her detail allowed the reader to understand and be able to see what was occurring. I did not however particularly like her writing style, although she provided such intricate detail I found it a little choppy and difficult to follow at some parts, which may just be because it was written so long ago that the language has changed a bit, but it was a little difficult to keep me intrigued. What stood out to me the most was the fact that she was so interested in this moth that she stopped what she was reading or working on and took time to watch the moth so closely, what anyone would normally overlook seemed to change her outlook on life.