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Woolf Street Haunting

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n Virginia Woolf’s self biographic essay Street Haunting, she explores complex themes and ideas on perception and identity while going out to buy a pencil on a winter evening in London, a seemingly mundane task. This passage in particular highlights how Woolf uses her writing as a way to examine and explore her feelings on transformation and her own self identity, and how identity is something that constantly changing as we progress through life, or even, as we take a walk to the store. Woolf’s main idea on identity that she presents in this passage it is so, “varied and wandering” that we are only truly ourselves and find our true identities when we allow ourselves to explore and acknowledge the identities that come into our life, and not

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