Response to Essays

Emily Free's "I Am Not A Vegetable" and Virginia Woolf's "The Death of the Moth" seem like they could work together fairly well. Emily's essay gives off repeated feelings of conflict and anxiety that occurs as a result of perhaps results from the over-analyzing of a situation. Woolf's does some of the same, especially in the beginning, as she says that those moths that fly during the day "are not properly to be called moths" because they don't "excite pleasant senses". She still admits that she notices the moths are content with their lives, however. It is the acute yet somewhat unusual attention to details that drive both essays.