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In the piece “Two Cafeterias” written by Virginia Woolf, Woolf compares the differences in men and woman, while using descriptive words and tone to get the point across. This point is expressed by a normal lunch, but while doing so Woolf points out problems with equality. Woolf uses food, which is a required necessity, to contrast the differences in men and woman. Woolf admits that luncheon parties are supposed to be “invariably memorable.” But people “seldom spare a word” during the meal about food quality. But in the men’s college however Woolf would “defy that convention” and talk about the meal in its entirety, and the differences in food quality. The “college cook … spread a counterpane” of exquisite cuisine before the men. Woolf describes

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