The minds of men and women are considered the same, but what is in them is what makes them different. Everything from the way they think, to the reasons why they think and the way they can think is different, but their minds share one thing, the ideas of freedom. Some people in relationships consider the opposite spouse complicated, confusing and more, perhaps because of their freedom. Virginia Woolf wrote The Mark on the Wall and provides what a woman might think about a man. She was born into a privileged family in England. According to The Norton Anthology English Literature, his parents were both open-minded freethinkers. His father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was a historian, author and one of the most important figures of the golden age of mountaineering. His mother, Julia Prinsep Stephen, served as a model for several Pre-Raphaelite painters. She was also a nurse and writer. But even though Woolf was privileged, she lived a tragic childhood. She was sexually abused by her older half-brother. At the age of thirteen, he had his first nervous breakdown after his mother's death, then two years later his half-sister died. Then, when he was twenty-two, he lost his father to cancer, and two years later his brother died of typhus. Woolf suffered from deep depression and mood swings, due to the traumas she experienced in her life, and attempted suicide several times. After his father's death, he “went to live with his sister and two brothers in Bloomsbury, the London neighborhood later associated with the group he moved between... The Bloomsbury Group prospered at the center of the middle class and intelligentsia upper-middle-class Londoner” (Greenblatt 2143). In The Bloomsbury Group...... middle of paper......na. "The Image of the Father in Virginia Woolf and Graham Swift." Scientific Journal Of Humanistic Studies 5.9 (2013): 67.Biography Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson). Network. April 23, 2014.Lieu, Judith, John North, and Tessa Rajak, eds. The Jews among the pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire. Routledge, 2013. Google Scholar. Network. 23 April 2014Lojo Rodríguez, Laura Ma. Crossing a century: women's short fiction from Virginia Woolf to Ali Smith. Bern: Peter Lang, 2012. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Network. April 23, 2014.Rado, Lisa. "Could the real Virginia Woolf please stand up? Feminist criticism, debates over androgyny, and..." Women's Studies 26.2 (1997): 147. Academic research completed. Network. April 25, 2014.Woolf, Virginia. "The mark on the wall." The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Gen. ed. Stephen Greenblatt. 9th ed. vol. 2. New York: Norton, 2012. 2143-49. Press.