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Virginia Woolf was faced with plenty of adversity in her life and fought through lots of it. Her final reaction to adversity would be killing herself.

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Clarissa is often unsuccessful in looking for happiness. The main character in this movie faces many forms of adversity and reacts to it in many different ways. Because of this, the movie can be related to Clarissa's different reactions to adversity.

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Clarissa Vaughan being a professional literary editor and publisher, appears to be related to literature. Because of this, her literature career has major impacts on her life. Any adversity faced in the literature scene forces her to face adversity in her life.

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She not only has a lovely apartment in New York City's West Village, but she and her partner Sally also enjoy the opportunity to live openly together. They do encounter discrimination. Which is where the connection between this poetry comes in. Although plot wise these two pieces have nothing to do with eachother, there is still a connection in terms of descrimination.

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I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then.

Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed-

I, too, am America.

From The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, published by Knopf and Vintage Books. Copyright © 1994 by the Estate of Langston Hughes. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.

About Langston Hughes

"I, Too" is from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, published by Knopf and Vintage Books. Copyright © 1994 by the Estate of Langston Hughes. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.

A poet, novelist, fiction writer, and playwright, Langston Hughes is known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties and was important in shaping the artistic contributions of the Harlem Renaissance.

About Langston Hughes

Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
I heard a Negro play.
Down on Lenox Avenue the other night
By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light
He did a lazy sway . . .
He did a lazy sway . . .
To the tune o' those Weary Blues.

The instructor said,

Go home and write
a page tonight.
And let that page come out of you-
Then, it will be true.

I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I dreamed that I was a rose
That grew beside a lonely way,
Close by a path none ever chose,
And there I lingered day by day.
Beneath the sunshine and the show'r
I grew and waited there apart,
Gathering perfume hour by hour,
And storing it within my heart,

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Virgina and Laura both share a disliking taste for the suburbs. They both don't enjoy suburbs in general because of the amount of adversity they have been met with throughout there lives there.

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Virginia's hatred for Richmond, England, originates from a different combination of events. She feels as if she's drying up in depressing Richmond, and it makes her even more obsessed with the thought of the excitement of London.

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After the Second World War, life for the people of California seemed to be at an all time high. Even though there was a super short depression, the economy quickly got itself back on its feet, to say the least. The post war era for California was looking good. However, for people like Laura this had more of a negative impact on her. There were expectations set for her that were strictly set to be her role, no exceptions. She was expected to be the perfect wife, perfect mother, and perfectly happy American citizen.

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California After the War - California State Capitol Museum

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President George Washington’s portrait resides in the Senate Chambers, while President Abraham Lincoln’s portrait resides in the Assembly Chambers. The commissioning of portraits of former governors began in 1879.

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In the early 1920s, Richmond, England (Woolf). The late 1940s, Los Angeles, California (Laura Brown). The 1990s, New York City's West Village (Clarissa Vaughan)

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Michael Cunningham is a novelist and screenwriter from the United States His novel The Hours, published in 1998, earned the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999.