An analysis of Virginia Woolfs To The Lighthouse :: To The Lighthouse Essays

An analysis of To the Lighthouse             arguing         Mrs. Ramsey is triumphant over Mr. Ramsey, by her awareness and intuitive feeling of the to a greater ex disco biscuitt important things in life the value of human relationships. Though she is submissive, with no mention of extensive educational background, she innately possesses the crucial social skills that ca-ca the cohesion of the family as a whole the respect and love of her children, and the act survival of her marriage.   Part I The Window Had there been an axe handy, or a poker, any weapon that would have gashed a hole in his fathers breast and killed him, there and then, James would have seized it... .(Mr. Ramsey) grinning sarcastic all(prenominal)y, not lone(prenominal) with the pleasure of disillusioning his son and casting ridicule upon his wje, who was ten thousand times better in every way than he was (James thought). P4 Yes, of course, if it sfine tomorrow, utter Mrs. Ramsey. To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary joy. P3 Perhaps you will force out up and find the sun shining and the birds singing, she tell compassionately, smoothing.the little boys hair, for her husband, with his pungent saying that it would not be fine, had dashed his spirits she could see. P15 But said his father, it won t be fine. P4 No going to the Lighthouse, James, he said. P14   What he (Mr. Ramsay) said was true. He was incapable of untruth never tampered with a fact never altered a disagreeable word to suit the pleasure or convenience of any mortal being, least of all of his own children, who, sprung from his loins, should be aware from childhood that life is difficult. P4 When the great clangour of the gong announce solemnly, authoritatively, that all those scattered about, in attics, in bedrooms, on little perches of their own, reading, writing, set the last smooth to their hair, or fastening dresses, must leave all that, and the little odds and ends on their washing-tables and dressing-tables, and the novels on the bed-tables, and the diaries which were so private, and assemble in the dining-room for dinner.