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To The Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
It opens with various snapshots of a family entertaining guests at their summer house in the Hebrides, debating whether or not the weather will be fine enough tomorrow to sail to the lighthouse off shore. Everyone is full of judgement, admiration, resentment, and tenderness, as the narrative lens alights on different scenes
Mr. Ramsey is a tyrant, flying into rages when his smallest demands aren't met by those around him. Mrs. Ramsey is an aging beauty with a powerful and soothing soul, who is never cowed by her husband's demands.
Later in the novel, after being widowed, Mr. Ramsey dramatizes himself, demanding pity and sympathy from everyone around him. His children and acquaintances resist this other kind of tyranny to varying degrees of success.
In such a short novel, Woolf shows off her genius with poignant and subtle descriptions of nature—the sea, the waves, the aging summer house, a mother sitting under a rock writing letters—all bring into focus the simple beauty and mundaneity of their lives.
Mr. Ramsey is a tyrant, flying into rages when his smallest demands aren't met by those around him. Mrs. Ramsey is an aging beauty with a powerful and soothing soul, who is never cowed by her husband's demands.
Later in the novel, after being widowed, Mr. Ramsey dramatizes himself, demanding pity and sympathy from everyone around him. His children and acquaintances resist this other kind of tyranny to varying degrees of success.
In such a short novel, Woolf shows off her genius with poignant and subtle descriptions of nature—the sea, the waves, the aging summer house, a mother sitting under a rock writing letters—all bring into focus the simple beauty and mundaneity of their lives.