To the Lighthouse is generally considered to be V. Woolf's most accomplished work. The vision of the book is an optimistic one. Out of the multiple oscillations between life and death, joy and sorrow, light and dark, ebb and flow of the sea, there is an expressed belief in the survival of the human spirit.
To the Lighthouse has a symbolic design, which gives coherence to the form of this abstract novel. Each and everyone of its section has a significant meaning:"The Window" symbolizes integration, "Time Passes", symbolizes disintegration and "The Lighthouse" represents reintegration.
This light - dark - light pattern resembles with the beam from the lighthouse which functions centrally in the novel, both as a literal place and as a symbol. The novel begins with a desire to visit the lighthouse and concludes with the journey to it, so the lighthouse is bound up with the journey theme of the novel.
Mrs. Ramsay is the central character of this novel, being both a symbol and an individual. She is the mother of eight children, a beautiful woman who finds a great pleasure in matchmaking, always trying to build bridges between people, a practical nurse and noble hostess.
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