Conflict Between Irene And Clares In The Bible By Sylvia Woolf

This passage from Woolf provides greater insight to Irene’s conflict between her different identities, as a women and as a person of color. Woolf talks about how “the mind is always… bringing the world into different perspectives” (97), and this is true for Irene, thought Clare can be seen as a stand in for the world in many ways. Throughout the book Clare causes Irene to question her own actions and beliefs as a woman of color. Clare represents the world of “passing” which Irene has chosen not to live, causing Irene to feel alienated in her own home. Irene lives with the possibility of “passing” if she wants too, race was always something she had to think about but being a woman was just simply something she was. Irene’s husband knew about