The Death of the Moth

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could not help watching him.”
She notices in clear sight the moth confined in the window pane and decides to observe his little movements as he flew from one corner of the window pane to another and then another. “What remained for him but to fly to a third corner and then to a fourth?” As she watches the moth’s movement back and forth in the window pane and starts to notice the limitations he has, being nothing more than a “little hay-colored moth.” Woolf seems astonished by the energy the moth had “dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life” that she even felt a sort of pity for him having limited opportunities to express the energy of excitement he felt within.
Woolf realizes the potential this moth had to express the built up energy he had in him, just as the naturally occurring forces expressed their energy. Although having observed the great amount of energy the moth had in comparison to that which she observed outdoors, Woolf feels pity for ...

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