Virginia Woolf: To The Lighthouse [Notes]
             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 and
             takes Charles Tansley, one of her husband's proteges, with her.
             Later, she watches over her youngest son, James, as he looks
             through magazines and cuts out pictures of household appliances.
             Still later, she reads the Grimm fairytale "The Fisherman and His
             Wife" to her son. Mr. Ramsey walks through the garden in and
             out of sight muttering lines of poetry to himself. He overhears
             Mrs. Ramsey promising James that he can go to the lighthouse the
             next day and Mr. Ramsey contradicts her by saying the weather
             will not permit the landing of a boat at the lighthouse. Lily
             Briscoe stands on the lawn facing the house painting a portrait of
             Mrs. Ramsey as she sits on the terrace with James. In the evening,
             Lily takes a stroll with William Banks. Cam Ramsey runs in and
             out of sight as she plays. Her brother, Jasper, also comes in and
             out of sight a...