Analysis of Lily’s Characteristics in “To The Lighthouse”

Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist and she was regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. <i>To the lighthouse</i> is one of the most important works of Virginia Woolf. The novel shows Lily’s conception of feminism by fully describing Ramsay couple. In the end the story Lily gets a better understanding of herself and overcome gender contains and flourish in her spiritual and artistic freedom. The paper focuses on analyzing Lily Briscoe ’s characteristics. The paper is divided into three parts. The first part briefly introduces Lily’s characteristics in <i>To the lighthouse</i> which talks about she pursues of new woman and drawing as well as resisting of patriarchal society. The second part analyzes two reasons about Lily’s characteristics: the family reasons and social reasons. And the third part mainly explains the results of Lily’s characteristics. It narrates Lily’s ment