First printed in May of 1927,,To The
Lighthouse, depicts a women struggling with her past and what it had meant to her. The
author brings to light the pains that this women suffered through her life and the
struggles she went through trying to become her grown up self. In this book there is lots of symbolism used that actually connect it to true life now and the struggles we go through as a society to get to where we can live together undisrupted. Throughout the whole book the women is trying to finish a painting that she was told was never good and that she could never finish. This is so symbolic of real life and how we try to paint a picture of ourselves as a part of society. This book would be a good read for a quarter end humanties project. Read and discussed throughout the quarter or even in a reading discussion group. It may seem like a stretch to some but if discussed and really read you can see the attachment of real life in this book and the symbolism of the painting of the
lighthouse, a beacon, in our own lives and even in society. We reach for a truth in all things in our society, but the real reaching is actually within us. As this women struggles to finish this painting she is struggling to create herself. We, as a society, struggle in the same ways to create and paint what we believe in and what we stand for. The other characters in this book give representation of the different factors that affect her life, and ours. To The Lighthouse is a truely great book and should be read from cover to cover and understood from inside out, and discussed for the true meaning of our actions and reactions to life itself.