Mrs. Dalloway. To the Lighthouse

Clarissa Dalloway, a socialite in her early fifties, is preparing for a party she is hosting at her home. In the morning, she leaves the house to buy flowers, which she loves very much, and she must decorate her home with them by evening. While walking through London, she reminisces about her youth and first love. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith, a World War I veteran suffering from shell shock, walks with his wife Lucrezia to a psychiatrist's appointment. Smith's day intertwines with Clarissa's and her friends’ day, their lives converge as the party reaches its peak. Upon learning of the tragedy concerning Smith, Clarissa reevaluates her life and her attitude towards death. A masterful novel by Virginia Woolf, where the past, present, and future merge into one significant day in June 1923. To the Lighthouse is a categorically unusual book. Two days separated by a ten-year gap. The depicted ideas, moods, and spiritual experiences. Memory, through which a greater life gradually and imperceptibly enters this delicate and elegant novel. This is the most famous work of Virginia Woolf. On its pages, the large Ramsey family, spending the summer on the Isle of Skye, dreams of going to the lighthouse visible from their shore. Daily, Mrs. Ramsey informs that their father will take them there the next day. However, the trip keeps getting postponed. By narrating this story, Woolf managed to paint a whimsical and voluminous picture of human relationships and explain how men and women think while no one is listening.