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Do you see Lily knowing what Mr. Ramsey needs, but not giving it to him makes her selfish? Why do we still root for her

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Do you see Lily knowing what Mr. Ramsey needs, but not giving it to him makes her selfish? Why do we still root for her

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is  the emptiness of the house a symbol for something else in the book?

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"For she felt a sudden emptiness; a frustration... who had no need of her whatsoever"(154)

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Is Lily Briscoe happy? What is Virginia Woolf trying to say about the development of an oppositional identity for women?

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"What's the use of going now?" ... in a queer, half dazed, half desperate way," What does one send to the lighthouse?"... (146)

What existentialist value can be read from this exchange in the greater context of the book?

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Will painting continue to provide Lily with the outlet it once did? (an escape, relieving herself of the external pressures to conform)

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"Thus occupied he seemed to her a figure of infinite pathos. He tied knots. He bought boots. There was no helping Mr. Ramsey on the journey he was going" (154) 

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"Thus occupied he seemed to her a figure of infinite pathos. He tied knots. He bought boots. There was no helping Mr. Ramsey on the journey he was going" (154) 

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What is Mr. Ramsay's purpose of existence?

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"The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it ..."(137-138)

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Is Lily being strong or weak when she fights Mr. Ramsay's wishes?

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What is Woolf implying about society and gender roles when she sets up a household situation in which no one truly fills the role of a typical housewife?

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"One feather, and the house, sinking, falling, would have turned and pitched downwards to the depths of darkness" (138).

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"One feather, and the house, sinking, falling, would have turned and pitched downwards to the depths of darkness" (138).

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Will Lily every get the same life Mrs. Ramsay had? Will she eventually tend to mens needs like with Mr. Ramsay or will she remain independent from that role?

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"Only the lighthouse beam entered the room for a moment . . . " (138)

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"Only the lighthouse beam entered the room for a moment . . . " (138)

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"Here was Lily, at forty four, wasting her time, unable to do a thing, standing there, playing at painting, playing at the one thing did not play at, and it was all Mrs. Ramsay's fault. She was dead." 149-150

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Is Mr. Ramsay trying to find comfort in any woman, and Lily just happens to be there? Or is Mr. Ramsay in someway attracted to Lily?

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Surely, she could imitate from recollection the glow, the rhapsody, the self-surrender, she had seen on so many women's faces (on Mrs. Ramsay's, for instance) when on some occasion like this they blazed up--she could remember the look on Mrs. Ramsay's face--into a rapture of sympathy, of delight in the reward they had, which, though the reason of it escaped her, evidently conferred on them the most supreme bliss of which human nature was capable.

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"He made it impossible for her to do anything" (148).

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" A woman, she had provoked this horror; a woman, she should have known how to deal with it."

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"What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The greatest revelation had never come. Perhaps the greatest revelation never did come."

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His immense self-pity, his demand for sympathy poured and spread itself in pools at her feet, and all she did, miserable sinner that she was, was to draw her skirts a little closer around her ankles, lest she should get wet." (162)

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"That man, she though...never gave; that man took. She, on the other hand, would be forced to give. Mrs. Ramsay had given. Giving, giving, giving, she has died - and had left all this"