Time’s Indifference in To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is about the invisible threads that connect us through thought

and feeling. A young boy wants to visit a lighthouse, but that simple wish becomes a psychological

battlefield between his parents on the Isle of Skye. His mother is warm and intuitive.

His father is cold and intellectually harsh. Woolf uses stream of consciousness

writing so you don't just watch these characters, you live inside their minds.

Then comes the terrifying middle section called Time Passes. The house decays. Characters age and

die. Nature moves forward without caring about human grief at all. Ten years vanish

in pages. When the family finally reaches the lighthouse, they realize the