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To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

Lily Briscoe Timeline and Summary

• Lily is painting Mrs. Ramsay, who is sitting past the window with James.
• Mr. Ramsay comes charging out of the house and about knocks over Lily's easel.
• Lily is relieved that he runs abroad. She really doesn't desire anyone to look at her painting.
• She has this moment where she listens to incoming footsteps and figures out that they belong to William Bankes. She'due south fine with William Bankes seeing her painting – in fact, she and William are buddies.
• Lily and William go for a walk.
• They walk over to where they can see the beautiful h2o of the bay, and experience united in watching the waves.
• Lily thinks of Mr. Ramsay's work.
• Lily and Mr. Bankes hash out Mr. Ramsay's piece of work.
• Lily puts away her painting things.
• Lily and Mr. Bankes criticize Mr. Ramsay as Lily puts away her brushes.
• Lily is nigh to criticize Mrs. Ramsay equally well when she sees the look of complete adoration that Mr. Bankes, historic period sixty, turns on Mrs. Ramsay.
• Equally Lily wipes her brushes, she is cheered by the thought that people can dear this way.
• She looks at her moving picture and near has a nervous breakup considering it'south bad!
• She recalls Mr. Tansley's words that women can't paint or write.
• Lily joins Mr. Bankes in staring at Mrs. Ramsay.
• Lily begins to think near Mrs. Ramsay, considering what comprises Mrs. Ramsay's unique identity.
• Mr. Bankes stops watching Mrs. Ramsay, and looks at Lily's painting.
• Lily braces herself. Mr. Bankes asks the pregnant of the purple triangle.
• Lily says that it'southward meant to represent Mrs. Ramsay reading to James.
• They talk briefly about light, dark, and composition.
• Lily feels that she has shared something very intimate with Mr. Bankes (without having to accept off her clothes, wow!).
• Mr. Bankes and Lily walk along and talk virtually travel.
• Lily is arrested by the sight of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay watching a girl throw a brawl, and this vision is enshrined for her as marriage.
• Every bit Mrs. Ramsay turns and smiles at the couple, Lily sees that Mrs. Ramsay wants her and William Bankes to marry.
• At dinner, Lily Briscoe watches Mrs. Ramsay, noticing that the dame looks old and tired until she begins talking to Mr. Bankes, at which signal she brightens up.
• According to Lily, Mrs. Ramsay pities William Bankes not because William is pitiful, but because Mrs. Ramsay wants him to be pitiful. Needs him to exist pitiful, even.
• Lily imagines her painting and realizes that she should put a tree in the middle of it. She moves the salt shaker on the tabular array in front of her so she will remember.
• Lily observes that Mrs. Ramsay always pities men, but never women.
• Lily is annoyed at Mr. Tansley, and thinks mean thoughts about him. She tries to recollect about her painting in an effort to command her atmosphere.
• Lily sweetly asks if she can join Mr. Tansley on the Lighthouse trip, and Mr. Tansley tin see that she obviously doesn't mean a word of information technology and he answers similar a jerk.
• Subsequently, Mr. Tansley is looking around the table, hoping that someone will talk to him and then he can exist a jerk again. Lily can come across all this, and knows that social convention deems that she make conversation with the homo, but remembering his unfavorable comments about women's power to paint and write, Lily leaves Mr. Tansley alone to struggle.
• Mrs. Ramsay looks at Lily and telepathically tells her to take social pity on the poor, bad-mannered Mr. Tansley.
• Lily and Mr. Tansley have a completely insincere conversation with each other, which Lily reflects is not dissimilar all human relations.
• She is cheered by the thought of painting the side by side day.
• Mrs. Ramsay later starts talking about vegetable skins, and Lily observes how everyone silently worships Mrs. Ramsay.
• Lily, envisaging a wonderful rescue, offers to help Paul look for Minta's brooch tomorrow forenoon. Paul doesn't say yes or no.
• Lily feels upset, then sees the salt shaker and remembers that she will paint tomorrow, and that she doesn't accept to marry. (The two are connected, by the way.)
• Lily feels that staying with the Ramsays causes her to experience ii violently opposite emotions at the aforementioned time: On the one hand, love is wonderful, just, on the other hand, dearest is childish beyond belief.
• Mrs. Ramsay looks at Lily and Mr. Tansley, concluding that both of them suffer in the presence of the happy Paul and Minta Doyle. Lily seems faded and inconspicuous adjacent to Minta's beautiful glow.
• Mrs. Ramsay does believe, still, that if you compare Lily and Minta at xl years of age, Lily will be the fairer of the ii. She has an indefinable something that Mrs. Ramsay likes but is afraid no homo will like.
• Later on a ten year interim, Lily and Mr. Carmichael come by the same train in September to the house in the Hebrides.
• Sitting at the breakfast tabular array, Lily Briscoe feels awkward.
• Poor Lily sits at the breakfast table as Mr. Ramsay loses his temper, Nancy forgets the sandwiches, Cam and James aren't ready, and Nancy is at a loss for what to bring to the Lighthouse keepers.
• Lily wonders what she's doing there.
• Mr. Ramsay looks direct at Lily for a moment, which throws her off balance.
• Lily sits and thinks for a while longer.
• Finally Lily remembers that she was painting the concluding time she stayed in the business firm, and gets up to fetch her paints. She resolves to finally stop the half-done painting.
• Lily sets upwardly her easel at the exact spot she set it up ten years agone.
• Poor Lily can't go any painting done because Mr. Ramsay keeps walking up to her. She equates him with, to put information technology mildly, chaos and ruin.
• Lily has a flashback to final night, where Mr. Ramsay told Lily that she would find them all much changed.
• Mr. Ramsay's presence continues to disturb Lily and she can't paint.
• Lily is repeatedly reminded of Mrs. Ramsay's absenteeism and death. She'south confused nearly it, considering she feels like she's trying to conjure upwardly a feeling inside herself that isn't there.
• We figure out that Lily is 44 years onetime.
• She gives up on trying to pain, puts her brush downwards, and tries to give Mr. Ramsay whatever attention and/or sympathy she can.
• Mr. Ramsay keeps making desperate plays to get sympathy from Lily, just Lily seems incapable of giving it.
• Finally, Lily says something. She tells Mr. Ramsay that he has beautiful boots. This is non what Mr. Ramsay wanted, but he smiles.
• Mr. Ramsay goes off on the awesomeness of his boots, and then disses Lily'due south method of shoelace tying. He shows her his method of shoelace tying, which is far superior.
• Lily is finally, unexpectedly, ready to give Mr. Ramsay sympathy.
• The Ramsays go off on their trek, leaving Lily feeling hollow inside.
• Equally the Ramsays march off, Lily realizes that, essentially, Mr. Ramsay needs to feel awesome. All the time. And Mrs. Ramsay used to fill that part.
• Lily adjusts all of her painting things, so contemplates where to first.
• Lily paints.
• As she paints, Lily tries to figure out the bespeak of all this effort. She knows the painting will probably wind upwards under some retainer's bed, just the words "women can't write, women can't pigment" ring in her ears and urge her on.
• Lily thinks about the meaning of life, and about, essentially, halting life. Freezing it. Mrs. Ramsay was able to practise information technology well, and when she remembers this, Lily thinks that she owes everything to Mrs. Ramsay.
• Lily walks to where she can run across the sea. She sees a little boat, and imagines Mr. Ramsay, Cam, and James sailing in information technology.
• Standing at the edge of the lawn, Lily finds the boat that Mr. Ramsay, Cam, and James are traveling in. She regrets not giving Mr. Ramsay her sympathy.
• Equally she paints, Lily daydreams a footling about sitting next to Mrs. Ramsay on the beach.
• So Lily thinks about Minta and Paul Rayley. Their marriage barbarous apart subsequently about a yr and the two are substantially all-time friends now.
• Lily wonders what Mrs. Ramsay would recall of the marriage.
• Lily feels triumphant over Mrs. Ramsay'south old fashioned values. Indeed, Lily had never married, nor had William Bankes, although Mrs. Ramsay did try her best to go them together.
• Lily has a moment of idea for the idea of beingness "in dearest," but remembers the Rayleys' marriage.
• Lily and William Bankes are, however, extremely proficient friends.
• Lily wants to talk to Mr. Carmichael about Mrs. Ramsay, but ends up (unexpectedly) crying and calling out to Mrs. Ramsay. This continues for a while.
• Lily then continues painting. She looks upward at one betoken and sees Mr. Ramsay's boat halfway across the bay.
• The weather condition is very good. Lily wonders where the boat is at present.
• Lily watches the sea. She feels as if they have gone forever.
• Lily ruminates that a lot depends on distance. Her feelings for Mr. Ramsay change as he goes farther away.
• She looks at her painting in shock. She has not been able to attain remainder between two opposing forces.
• Something is evading Lily whenever she thinks of Mrs. Ramsay or her movie.
• Lily thinks nigh Mr. Carmichael and how he has changed. The 2 of them don't know each other very well, but Lily argues in her mind that she knows Mr. Carmichael. She can imagine the shape of his verse.
• Lily thinks about Mr. Carmichael's interactions with Mrs. Ramsay, how Mrs. Ramsay, sensing that Mr. Carmichael didn't like her, would always try to be helpful towards him.
• Lily thinks about Mrs. Ramsay'southward grapheme.
• And so Lily thinks well-nigh Charles Tansley, and how he got married, had a lilliputian daughter, and denounced the war in favor of brotherly dearest.
• Lily reflects that l eyes are necessary to meet people clearly.
• Lily imagines the life that Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay had together.
• She turns her attending dorsum to her painting, then walks again to the edge of the lawn. She wants Mr. Ramsay. Don't become so excited, she doesn't want him in that style.
• Lily finishes her painting, and the painting matches her vision.

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