Lily’s Artifice and Mr. Ramsey's Work in To the Lighthouse

Comparison of Lily's craftsmanship at Wolf's "Going to the Lighthouse" in Virginia state and Ramsay's work at the lighthouse, Mr. Ramsay's only philosophical work is in stark contrast to Lily's circled painting is. Both Lily and Ramsey careers have to be sacrificed; Lilly gave up the ideal marriage, and Mr. Ramsey lost his wife to regain his happiness. Through his work, Mr. Ramsay can build himself, and it seems that he is a strong male statue. Lily also found power in her art by rejecting the image of the traditional "mother and daughter" and establishing her own identity in her society.

In "going to the lighthouse", Wolf has shown to the world that the two extreme events of Mrs. Ramsay and Mr. Ramsey never succeed. She expresses Mrs Ramsay as a "pure female" and she makes a "picker 2" for all her husband and Ramsey's doing, but Wolf has qualities that closest homosexuals come from both is needed. Therefore, Wolf created these two characteristics, Lily's character "to incorporate reason and imagination into the sex partner" (Picker 2). She refused to marry and refused the Victorian Treaty but unfortunately this ceremony will destroy any independence she had at that time. She also refuses to maintain relationships with men (to avoid friendship) in order to avoid "do not compromise myself by unsafe men" or "indulge in excessive male arrogance" .

Lily expressed Lady Ramsey as "old" "wearing" "lost". These adjectives reveal the essence of the relationship between Mrs Lilly and Mrs. Ramsay. At least in Lily, she has some indignation against Mrs. Ramsay and her view on her is obvious. Indeed, she was "loose" when Lily noticed that Mrs. Lamsay was paying attention to William. Lily wants to know why Ramsey has mercy on William. She discovered that Mrs Ramsay's regret is a little worrisome. Lilly's sympathy for William is "one of the instinctive misunderstandings, not from the needs of others," Lily concluded. Because Mrs Ramsay is in the room. I found a glitch, Lily discovered that Mrs Ramsey has little fault. Her conclusion is that Mrs. Ramsay is wrong because Mr. Williams is "doing his work". Therefore, William should not sympathize. This conclusion made her into another way of thinking.

The third part begins with Mr. Ramsay and two children, Cam and James, during the summer, finally heading to the lighthouse, studying the picture of Mrs. Ramsay. Through Lily's thought, we heard that she never got married, but she is still the best friend of William Banks. The marriage between Paul and Minta collapsed. Ramsay, Cam and James actually went to the lighthouse. Yuri completed her painting. In the last part of the novel, it is clear that Mrs. Ramsay is very short.