The minds of men and women are considered the same, but what is inside them is what makes them different. Everything from how they think, why they think, and how they can think, presents itself in different ways, but their minds share one thing, the ideas of freedom. Some people in relationships view their opposite spouse as complicated, confusing and more, perhaps because of their freedom. Virginia Woolf wrote The Mark on the Wall and describes what a woman might think in relation to a man. She was born into a privileged family in England. According to The Norton Anthology English Literature, his parents were both open-minded and free thinkers. His father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was a historian, author and one of the most influential figures of mountaineering's golden age. His mother, Julia Prinsep Stephen, served as a model for several Pre-Raphaelite painters. She was also a nurse and a writer. But even though Woolf was privileged, she had a tragic childhood. She was sexually abused by her older half-brother. At the age of thirteen, she suffered her first nervous breakdown after the death of her mother, then two years later, a close half-sister died. Then, at the age of twenty-two, she lost her father to cancer, and two years later her brother died of typhoid. Woolf suffered from deep depression and mood swings, due to the trauma she experienced in her life, and attempted suicide several times. After the death of her father, "she went to live with her sister and two brothers in Bloomsbury, the district of London which would later become associated with the group in which she evolved... The Bloomsbury group prospered at the center of the middle class and the upper-middle-class London intelligentsia” (Greenblatt 2143). In the Bloomsbury Group...... middle of paper ......na. “The image of the father in Virginia Woolf and Graham Swift.” Scientific Journal of Humanist Studies 5.9 (2013): 67. Biographical Reference Bank (HW Wilson). Internet. April 23, 2014. Lieu, Judith, John North and Tessa Rajak, eds. Jews among the pagans and Christians of the Roman Empire. Routledge, 2013. Google Scholar. Internet. April 23, 2014Lojo Rodríguez, Laura Ma. Crossing a century: women's short fiction from Virginia Woolf to Ali Smith. Bern: Peter Lang, 2012. Electronic Book Collection (EBSCOhost). Internet. April 23, 2014.Rado, Lisa. "Would the real Virginia Woolf please stand up? Feminist criticism, debates on androgyny and..." Women's Studies 26.2 (1997): 147. Academic research completed. Internet. April 25, 2014.Woolf, Virginia. “The mark on the wall.” The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. general. Stephen Greenblatt. 9th ed. Flight. 2. New York: Norton, 2012. 2143-49. Print.