Woolf's “Moments of Being” Represented in The Mark on the Wall

This paper studies a short fiction of Virginia Woolf The Mark on the Wall.Woolf held the literary theory "moments of being" and believed that the moments ordinary enough in itself had an extraordinary effect on people's imagination.Based on many diaries,essays and fictions of Woolf,and the related literature review,this paper analyzes the "moments of being" represented in The Mark on the Wall.It's is found that the moments of being are truth of being,both the external word and inner world.Woolf catches her mind sparks,seeks the truth and free thinking in each moment during her life.