Themes are dated: V. Woolf was a modernist writer who pioneered the use of <em>stream of consciousness </em>and her themes were unconventional, to say the least.
Her characters are wealthy: Even if it´s true this doesn´t keep readers from being open-minded.
Her dialogue is unrealistic: As she herself pointed out once: ¨<em>Dialogue is often preposterously unrealistic.¨</em>
Her settings are unfamiliar: The writer of this answer recalls the profound dificulty he had with the strange und onorthodox settings of <em>The W</em>aves
Bags Symbol Analysis. Zora Neale Hurston introduces bags as a symbol of her own experience of and thinking about race. She refers to “brown” and “white, red and yellow” bags that represent skin color, but that's the end of her description of the bags themselves.
