Orlando: “Orlando was unaccountably disappointed. She had thought of literature all these years (her seclusion, her rank, her sex must be her excuse) as something wild as the wind, hot as fire, swift as lightning; something errant, incalculable, abrupt, and behold, literature was an elderly gentleman in a grey suit talking about dutchesses” (Woolf 98). As a male, the famous poet Greene never gave Orlando the time of day, but now as a female, Greene gossiped with Orlando and entertained her writing, regarding it as worthy of being shared with the world. It makes me wonder if he holds her to a different and lower standard since she is a female and anything she produces is received as a spectacular novelty which wouldn’t be the case if she were a man getting into the male dominated discipline of poetry which was dominated by Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Greene, etc.