Please, it's very important. Could you give me advices to make it more formal and elegant? My study aims to analize a often ignored but important part of Virginia Woolf's work that is her production of short stories. In fact, we are used to think of her most famous novels or essays and quite never of the 46 short stories she wrote. In the first part of the study I considered the role the short story played in his career and in particular the relation between this and her novels. Then I analaizd 8 stories she wrote once she finish “Mrs Dalloway”, each of them is set at clarissa's party. About the first part of this study, what it emerges out is that the short story played a central role in her work: the writer realized its potencial and even admitted that she first felt free from the rules of Realism when she wrote stories such as “Monday or tuesday” or “The mark on the wall”. Besides it's clear that exist a strong connection between short stories and novels: one of her most novels, “Mrs Dalloway”, was conceived inside the pages of a previous short story called “Mrs dalloway in bond street”. This movement, that leads from a short story to a book, occured also with “jacob's room” and “the waves”. But what is interesting to note is that if there's a movement that from a story leads to a novel, there is also another and a opposite movemet: in fact in 1925, in a notbook called “notes for writng”, woolf express the will to write some stories in which she could keep exploring the party consciousness, and so the main them of the novel. and to make these stories a corridor leading from “mrs dalloway” to a new book, that is “to the lighthouse”. So, these facts demonstrate how the short story form was for woolf a place where she could experiment and even start the idea of a new book. Then, In the second part of the study I analized these eight stories that are autonomous but at the same time connected by the same setting, carachters and first of all same themes: themes such as loneliness, alienation, fear of the other and the impossibility of a true and honest communication. What we have are summaries of empty or false conversations that altern the charachters' stream of consciousness wich show their real feelings. At this point what it's important to understand is the reason why woolf decided to explore again the party consciousness and why she decided to do it inside these short stories instead a of a novel. In the first case it's clear that the party has the potencial of joining all goals of virginia art, such as inner and outer exp