This paper is to analyze the stream of consciousness employed by Virginia Woolf in her earlier short story The Mark on the Wall, which, without such traditional elements of fiction as plot, movement of character and conflicts, reflects the richness on the inner spiritual world and mental activities by a series of free imagination of the heroine. It is thought that the successful use of the stream of consciousness in The Mark on the Wall marks Woolf's breakthrough from the traditional novel and brings the stre...