E.K.
Sparks
Clemson U
Spring 2000
Structural Outline of Woolf's To
the Lighthouse
Part
I: The Window | Part II: Time Passes |
Part
III: The Lighthouse
Page # = (Harcourt/ Routledge)
Part I: The Window
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(3/35)1. TO TOWN WI TANSLEY--Promise
to James: James’ sensibility; Mr. Ramsey insists on truth; Mrs. R knitting;
Tansley; Mrs. R invites him to walk to town; Mr. Carmichael; walk to town;
power of her beauty; Mrs. R as Queen Victoria
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(15/43) 2. 2nd REFUSAL -- Tansley
repeats denial of trip
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(15/43) 3. SITTING FOR LILY’S
PICTURE--Mrs.R consoling James; hears pause in conversation of men; moment
of terror; finds pocket-knife for James to cut out; remembers to hold still
for Lily’s painting
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(17/45) 4. LILY & WM. BANKES--Lily
painting, Wm Bankes looking on; Mr. R reciting Tennyson;
6:30, evening walk to look at water; Mr. Bankes thinking of friendship
wi Ramsey, R’s family 8 children; Lily thinks of Mr. R’s work as kitchen
table (/49)
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(25/52) 5. MRS. RAMSEY--Mrs.
R thinking abt deterioration of house, maids; silence--her ability to find
truth; her beauty from Bankes’ perspective: Mrs. R in front of Michaelangelo
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(30/55) 6. MR. RAMSEY--Angry
at interruption; thinking past Q; R as hero, leading expedition
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(36/60) 7. MRS. RAMSEY--Mr.
R demanding sympathy (“arid scimitar of the male”)
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(40/62) 8. CARMICHAEL &
Mr. R--Carmic takes opium; Mr. R’s desire to help; Mr. Ramsey attacking
art; solitude;
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(45/66) 9. LILY--Lily in love
wi Ramseys; trying to catch impression of Mrs. R; Lily’s paiting;
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•(54/73) 10. FISHERMAN &
HIS WIFE--Mrs. R reading story to James, "worrying about Paul and Minta;
thinking abt children
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(62/79) 11. MRS. R &
LIGHTHOUSE--losing self, wedge-shaped core of darkness
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(65/81) 12. MR. & MRS.
R-- Walking in the garden "Best and
brightest, come away"
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(71/86) 13. LILY--sees Ramseys
as symbol of marriage
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(73/87) 14. MINTA & PAUL
& NANCY-- Nancy looking in tide pool; Minta loses her grandmother’s
brooch, crying
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(79/91) 15. Prue answers
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(79/91) 16. BEFORE DINNER--
Jasper and Rose choosing jewelry
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(82/94) 17. DINNER-- separateness:
Lily thinking of painting, Tansley resisting women; Mr. Bankes, Lilly gives
in and is nice to T, Mr. Ramsey petulant; Fruit dish: party pulls together;
Lily ambivalent abt love; Tansley denouncing Scott; Augustus C reciting
poetry: "Luriana Lurilee"
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(112/116) 18. AFTER DINNER--
Mrs. R goes to children’s room; shawl over boar’s head
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(117/120) 19. MR. & MRS.
R-- she reading poetry, Shakespeare;
he reading Scott; she acknowledges
him wi/out saying it
Part
II: Time Passes
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(125/129) 1. LAMPS EXTINGUISHED
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(125/129) 2. ONE NIGHT--
airs spread through house
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(127/130) 3. MANY NIGHTS--
Mrs Ramsey dies
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(128/131) 4. HOUSE DESERTED--
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(130/132) 5. MRS. MCNAB
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(131/133) 6. SPRING-SUMMER:
Prue’s marriage and death; the war; Andrew’s death
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(134/136) 7. SEASONS PASS
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(135/136) 8. MRS. MCNAB-- house
deteriorating beyond her ability
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(138/138) 9. HOUSES REVIVED
-- nature moving in; Mrs. McNab and Mrs. Bast come to clean and make ready
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(141/141) 10. LILY BACK TO
VISIT
Part
III: The Lighthouse
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• (/145) 1. Mr. RAMSEY’S DEMANDS--
Lily; Nancy arranging things for trip; Lily can’t paint b/c of Mr. R
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(/149) 2. MEETING Demands--
Lily praises his boots
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(/153) 3. LILY PAINTING-- thinking
abt. Tansley; Mrs. Ramsey bringing things together
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(/157) 4.BOAT--Cam and James
resisting tyranny of Mr. R’s emotions
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(170/163) 5. LILY REMEMBERS--
iron butterfly; thinking about Minta and Paul, failure of marriage
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(/171) 6. FISH IS DEAD
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(/171) 7. LILY--thinking
of Mrs R
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(/172) 8. BOAT-- Cam and green
light; JAMES --wanting to kill father
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(/176) 9. LILY LOOKING AT BAY
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(/176) 10. BOAT: CAM-- reconciling
with father Cowper
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(/179) 11. LILY-- Changes in
feeling towards Mr. R; anthill; shadow at window; return of longing
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(/187) 12. BOAT ARRIVES-- Mr.
R reading; praises James
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(/191) 13. LILY HAS HER VISION--finishes
painting