She gives an open invitation to ponder, a food for thought to her readers by questioning them: "Why did men drink wine and women water? Why was one sex so prosperous and the other so poor? What effect has poverty on fiction? What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art?" These lines could be termed as the jist of her essay, plainly put, they cover her scrutiny, as she uses various styles and approaches to explain and weigh the reasons of women's creative inabilities.

Woolf's style however, switching-in and switching-out in her own playful way creates suavity and humor entwined together but not overlooking the pleasure of reading a fluid prose. Also added to the package is loaded sarcasm letting her readers plunge into deeper waters for better understanding of the implications impressed upon women, keeping them from impressing their mark in creative writing show ground. "if only Mrs. Seton and her mother before her had learnt the great art of making money and had left their money" for the education of their daughters. She is forced to concede, however, that a great sacrifice would have been required"

By choosing fiction as a medium of her argument, Woolf slips into themes in order to cautiously and vigilantly study the inhibitors of women's recorded creative growth. "the urbanity, the geniality, and the dignity which are the offspring of luxury and privacy and space," also the...

She uses mocking situations like a book written on female inabilities, only to portray an outward perception of women by the men at large..." been written in the red light of emotion and not in the white light of truth." The mentioned lines explain how a man's judgment is shrouded with his own self indulgence, of asserting his masculinity that they reduce females as a yardstick to measure their superiority. Woolf uses interesting color comparisons, simple understandable examples while not losing the beauty of prose writing. This makes her sentences all the more effective and provocative.
Towards the close of the essay she depicts the liberated self of the narrator of all the three factors that stunt a creative growth in a woman. This use of imagery to the fullest without losing its flavor is an art of efficacy in itself. She writes from the perspective of her audience and employs all the tools that facilitate a simple, entertaining prose loading with the intended message.