![]() ![]() “Time Passes” provides an intimate overview of the passage of time, from the omniscient point of view of the abandoned falling-down house, and “The Lighthouse”-written from the point of view of Lily Briscoe, determined to capture her creative vision even amidst the uncertainties of her return to the Ramsays’ seaside house-demonstrates the effects of the passage of time on an individual’s outlook. The third section, “The Lighthouse,” is a meditation on the meaning of returning to the places that hold our memories. In “Time Passes,” the brief second section of the novel, Woolf addresses the feeling and state of absence, primarily from the point of view of the Ramsays’ house in which all of the action of the first section occurred. Ramsay, the imposing character who dies in the novel’s next section. ![]() The first section of the book, “The Window,” sets up the relationships among the characters, traces the geography (both human and physical) surrounding the narrative, and breathes life into Mrs. It chronicles grief, consciousness, memory, how these are tied intimately to a place, and how people handle change over time. To the Lighthouse is the reason I love Virginia Woolf. ![]()
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