The Unexpected Hope in “Time Passes” Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse follows the Ramsay family and their guests through ten years marked by war, disaster, and death. As I read the section “Time Passes,” I was struck by the parallels
A meme and some questions
First, the lovely Jenny Slate. Secondly: I’d like to think for a moment about the questions, “Will you fade? Will you endure?” and “Will you fade? Will you perish?” asked by the wind of… the house? The family the house
Someone had blundered
The lines that Mr. Ramsay recites in “The Window” are from Tennyson’s poem “Charge of the Light Brigade,” which celebrates the heroism of soldiers who were sent to their avoidable death in the Crimean War. Discuss.
