No brother's love could match my love, my poor dead girl, Virginia. You filled your pockets full of stones, then waded into the river. You drowned your troubles and your fears In an Ophelia like allusion. Leaving me to be,and not to be. until my own conclusion
The manner of Virginia Wolff's suicide was reminiscent of Hamlet's Ophelia. The point of view is that of her husband, Henry. The title is taken from Shakespeare's hamlet