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Term Paper Title	A Childish Father
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A Childish Father

In Virginia Woolf's "My Father: Leslie Stephen" she delineates a description of her father. Her use of
subtle detail and diction allows the reader to discover allusions about her father's childish personality.
Leslie Stephen's clever imagination, neglect of conventional values, and love of communicating ideas on
paper, all aid in setting up his "fairy tale" adult life.
     It is clear from the start that Virginia Woolf wanted to stress her father's love of writing. Within
less than a page, Woolf uses many words to describe her father's love of writing: book, written, wrote,
paper, pencil, read, flyleaves, essays, and stories. It is also necessary to note that she uses words such as
draw, scribble, and illustrate. When that is applied to her father's love of creating animal shapes, or drawing
beasts on paper, it can be seen that his creative outlet relies heavily on the paper material itself.  Just as a
child might read stories, draw animals, or sway to sleep, Mr. Stephen would write while rocking back and
forth in his chair "like a cradle (155)."
     The line between reality and imagaination is one that Woolf's father was not ready to cross. It
wasn't his dexterous hands or his writings that displayed his true self; it was the pictures that extended
beyond the page and into the depths of the mind. His imagination could take him from the "guns on the
battlefield (157)" to "...

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