Home

The home is the grounding location in "Street Haunting," in that it represents the place where the self is safe and consistent. Woolf notes that the home contains the possessions and memories associated with the individual, and thus serves as the protective place for the self to flourish. When those items vanish, or when someone leaves their home, the self is no longer safe and instead moves onto inhabiting other selves with which it interacts. At the end of the essay, Woolf returns home, grounding readers once more and acknowledging that we must maintain a balance between solitude and sociality.

The Boot Shop

The boot shop is Woolf's first stop on her walk through the streets of London. It is where she sees the small woman and imagines what her life must be like. The boot shop represents Woolf's first withdrawal from the fantasy of the superficial...