The novel is set on an island in the Hebrides (a group of islands

off the West Coast of and belonging to Scotland) at the Ramseys's

vacation house. The novel is set in a ten year period, with the first

section (and the bulk of the action) taking place in one day before

the war, a middle period in which all action takes place "off stage"

during the war, and a last section taking place in one day after the

A fifty year old mother of eight children and wife of a

A guest to Mrs. Ramsey. A thirty-three year old single woman in

the first section, she is a painter. She is forty-four years old in the

A philosopher who studies the relation of the subject and object

and the nature of reality; over sixty in the first section; almost

Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is divided in to three parts. In

the first part, "The Window" Woolf describes several people who

are spending the day outside the Ramsey vacation house in the

Hebrides. Mrs. Ramsey walks into town to visit a sick woman an

out of sight muttering lines of poetry to himself. He overhears

patriarchal culture that insists that women are not intellectual

Mrs. Ramsey promising James that he can go to the lighthouse the

manner. Certain moments of vivid experience are with a person

attempted suicide. When she recovered, she moved with her sister

feel good about himself. Lily resists doing so, but finally submits

Woolf wrote another novel, Orlando (1928) after a lesbian affair

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Approximate Word count = 1671
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)