A comparison of life and death as seen by Dillard and Woolf

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Dillard also uses a moth to convey a quite different point of view on life and death. She makes no mention in her essay about the life the moth lived before its death. Her emphasis is only on the life of the moth after death hence indicating that unlike Woolf, she is more concerned with the things left behind once one dies as opposed to the things that they accomplish when alive...
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Her emphasis is only on the life of the moth after death hence indicating that unlike Woolf, she is more concerned with the things left behind once one dies as opposed to the things that they accomplish when alive. In Dillard's essay, she starts by talking about the remains of dead moths that are found in her bathroom, placing emphasis of what was left behind of the moth when it died...
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