When I read the essay "women and fiction", I am catch up in enjoyment and appreciation of the writer's opinions and skills in developing her essay. The writer tries to express a thought that the style in which women write changes with the times and the role they play in life, so does their attitude to society. The writer also tries to discuss and reveal the reasons as she writes in essay "It is only when we can measure the way of life and the experience of life made possible to the ordinary woman that we can account for the success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer". Obviously the writer gives some factors that influences the women's writing, such as law, customs, manners and working experience. There are also many barriers that need to be overcame like their sex, the technical difficulties, and the values in the life. At the end of essay, the writer predicts that women's composing style will change in time, they will write more poetry and criticism and history, and the novels level will be improved. I don't totally agree with the writer's opinions. I think that if her prediction want to come true, there are many pre-conditions to be gotten, but up to now these pre-conditions don't exist, so her opinions can't come true today.
Although I don't totally agree with the writer's point of view, the essay is well-organized. In the essay, the author proficiently uses many methods to support and develop her main points such as tone, example, historical facts, and rhetorical questions. So the essay is very powerful.
What impresses me the most are the rhetorical questions. At the beginning of essay, author uses a series of questions to start her essay "Why was there no continuous writing done by women before the eighteenth century? And why did their art then, and why to some extent does their art still, take the form of fiction?" These questions make us immediately associate with the main point that the author wants to discuss.
