Moreover, a daughter, Prue, has died in childbirth, and a son, Andrew, has been killed in First World War. In Part Two, things fall apart time ravages the house, and we learn in passing that Mrs. The day culminates in a dinner in which union is triumphantly achieved, at least for a moment. We see the shifting flow of thought and relationships from various points of view. Ramsay, but also within individual characters’ minds. Conflicts arise and fall in Part One, especially between Mr. Ramsay, a philosopher, and his wife, a famous beauty, both in middle age, are staying with their eight children and various guests at their summer holiday home in the Hebrides, islands off Scotland. What story there is can be summarized quickly: Mr. Why read To the Lighthouse? What is it? A novel? A painting with words? A fairy tale? A feminist manifesto? An autobiography? A declaration of war? An “elegy,” as Virginia Woolf put it? If so, for what?
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