To the Lighthouse Characters

Mrs. Ramsay is about as close as Virginia Woolf ever got to Angelina Jolie: Mrs. Ramsay's beautiful, beloved, charitable, and the mother of many children. (Although, Mr. Ramsay is no Brad Pitt.) Bu...

When we are first introduced to Mr. Ramsay, he comes off as a bit of a jerk. To paraphrase, he says stuff like: "No Lighthouse for you tomorrow, James!" "Life is hard!" and "Suck it up!" But, once...

Have you ever heard the term "Mary Sue"? It's an internet slang expression for a character in a story who seems like total wish fulfillment for the author – someone the author either 1) reall...

James Ramsay is the youngest of the Ramsay family's eight children. He starts out the novel as a six-year-old and ends it as a melancholy, sullen sixteen-year-old. James's entire character revolves...

Charles Tansley is a student of Mr. Ramsay’s who was invited to the house for the summer. No one likes him because he has a gargantuan chip on his shoulder. It’s so big that it gets in...

William is friends with Mr. Ramsay, and thus he warrants an invitation to the summer house. The man is a childless widower who clearly adores Mrs. Ramsay while maintaining a friendship with Lily. H...

He uses opium that stains his beard yellow, and is the only person in the novel impervious to Mrs. Ramsay’s charms.