"Death of a Moth" Response

In the story, “Death of the Moth”, Virginia Woolf is watching a moth on her windowsill. As she watches, the moth, at first so full of life, begins to die. She struggles with the decision of rather she can help it but always ends up doing nothing and putting her pencil back down. I believe that there are two “significances” or “whys” to Virginia Woolf’s experience. Those would be the factors of life and the factors of death. She talks about both in great detail when describing the moth. I also believe that she is connecting the moths story to her own story because it linking up with her own life and death. In her life, she suffered from recurrent depression which can be seen in the moth when it starts giving up on trying to live almost like it is depressed. Both the moth and Virginia Woolf give up on their lives in the end of their stories. The moth stops fighting his death and Virginia Woolf drowns herself in a river.  The story affects me as a reader because as you continue to read you grow to like the moth however, it still meets its end at the close of the story. As a writer, Virginia Woolf inspires me. She does a good job of finding so many details in such a small event that most people would not even pay attention to and attributed it to such a controversial topic in people’s lives. The part of the story that stands out to me the most is the end. As a reader you do not see it coming because most other stories try to have the main character, or in this case, the main creature survive. This is not so with the moth.