Ramsay, who is fretting over his philosophical work. Ramsay tries to reconcile her son James and Mr. Paul proposes the same day Lily starts painting Mrs. Ramsay does arrange the marriage of two other friends, Paul Rayley and Minta Doyle. Ramsay wants Lily and her old friend William Bankes to fall in love and marry, but Lily wants to stay single. Lily Briscoe is a young painter who also comes around to paint Mrs. The Ramsays host many guests including Charles Tansley, a fan of Ramsay’s philosophical work. James resents his father for not being able to go and thinks he says it just to be mean to the kids. Their son James wants to go to the lighthouse, and he is told they will if the weather is nice, but it looks not to be. Ramsay and his wife and eight children go to their summer home in the Hebrides, and their home overlooks a lighthouse. The first section starts just before WWI. This is a work of stream of consciousness narrative split into three sections.
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