The Death of the Moth Response

Virginia Woolf tells the tragic story of a moth that catches her attention as she is sitting at her desk. As a reader I can relate to sitting at my desk and looking out the window and having my attention taken away by some small insignificant part of nature. However, I never thought writing about it could some how relate to a person's life. The significance of this writing is how it mirrors the authors life. The moth at the beginning is full of life much like Ms. Woolf. As life goes on for the moth there is a fight for life, "what he could do he did", but "death is stronger". The author was going through a fight for life as she was writing this, but allowed death to be stronger than her and ultimately commited suicide.  I believe that the why for this writing was that it allowed Ms. Woolf to share what was going through her mind without it directly relating to her. The author does a very good job of describing the moth and its fight for life. The part that stands out to me was the line "death is stronger than I am". This shows that the fight is completely over and the moth and author have surrendered to death. It concludes the passage very strongly.