While this may seem a cop-out to some, it felt actually beneficial to the structure of this novel, such as allowing Woolf to seamlessly transition from character to character. I found his voice annoying at times and felt that he was not the best fit to portray some of the characters in The Lighthouse. Simply put Woolf evoked a feeling deep within of family, both living and deceased, and is there anything more important than that?

To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. But no, Woolf avoids such bold naturalism by paraphrasing her characters’ thoughts into beautifully crafted, ultra refined sentences. Even the parentheses in the novel's stylised middle section was deeply strange, and all along I seemed to forget this was written some 90 years ago. So much of the prose was redolent of an abstract surrealist film, such were the clarity and preciseness of its images. There were surprising twists in the book that took the plot to places I wasn't initially expecting, and it did a good job making me want to turn the pages to find out what happens next.

In the Intro by Eudora Welty she says that in the novel “reality looms” but “Love indeed pervades the whole novel.

In 2005, the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels since 1923. The developments at the second half of the book made me appreciate the story as a whole, and rereading the book one day knowing the full picture would be an interesting experience since I would notice the little hints planted at the beginning. Me ha gustado muchísimo la estructura del libro, dividida en tres partes en las que la segunda es una especie de puente entre la primera y tercera, separadas por un espacio de tiempo de 10 años.Just as The Waves is a wholly original restructuring of the form of biography, To the Lighthouse is a wholly original restructuring of the form of autobiography. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own. Ramsay and its ineffective smoothing by his wife leave the younger Ramsay children considering their father a tyrant, a despot. When I came across Charles Tansley, the visiting working-class academic who can’t seem to fit in to the Ramseys’ elegantly shabby lifestyle in the early pages of To the Lighthouse, I immediately aligned myself with him.

My friend, Srđan, was reading To The Lighthouse; his excitement was contagious, so I decided to revisit To The Lighthouse. To the Lighthouse, a 1983 telefilm starring Rosemary Harris, Michael Gough, Suzanne Bertish, and Kenneth Branagh. To the Lighthouse' was the literary equivalent to perching in the back of someone else's mind; going through their own pains and joys through the thought process.Amy Tucker is only visiting for the night and has no plans to get caught up in the hysteria, but that changes when she meets Ryan, the loyal, hard-working son of a ranch owner who lives on the outskirts of town.

The town's lighthouse–dormant for over thirty years and famously haunted–has inexplicably started shining, and its mysterious glow is sparking feverish gossip throughout the spooked community. While they set sail for the lighthouse, Lily attempts to finally complete the painting she has held in her mind since the start of the novel. This philosophical and psychological discussion was so fascinating and it is what I enjoyed the most. Whereas in Part I, the novel is concerned with illustrating the relationship between the character experiencing and the actual experience and surroundings, part II, 'Time Passes', having no characters to relate to, presents events differently. Woolf combats the patriarchy through this novel, creating a sleek, short masterpiece as opposed to the behemoth (but equally amazing) Ulysses, filled with attacks on the ‘ masculine intelligence’ and making parody of the male opinions on women.

Ramsay is left adrift without his wife to praise and comfort him during his bouts of fear and anguish regarding the longevity of his philosophical work. The location of the main story in To the Lighthouse, the house on the Hebridean island, was formed by Woolf in imitation of Talland House.