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- Class and power relationships
- sexual politics
- sensuality
- moments of being--what is life, what is reality, spiritual continuum,
- focus on domestic detail
- Kew gardens--various classes
- Mark on the wall questions male dominance, patriarchy and war in ways similar to KM
- Woolf is less sensual, less body presence
- Garden party
- gardens, flowers, roses
- snails
Devices
- both utilize stream of consciousness
- lyrical quality--prose poetry
- compacting
- layering
- VW--short stories more experimental, plotless
- VW focuses on moments, time compacted
- KM stays with more conventional plot
- tight punch of expression
- compact character portryal
- Woolf develop[s characters inductively, building up from stream of consciousness
- Mansfield is more deductive-- often an initial revelation (through dialog), which is followed by a series of confirmations