Ramsay has finally made his own peace with all of the intellectual burdens he's been fighting all of his life. Lily sees that 'He must have reached it' (3.13.1), that Mr. Ramsay once represented isn't only something Lily has stopped acknowledging. She can paint whatever she likes, however she likes, because she no longer feels the weight of the social and gender hierarchies that Mr. Ramsay truly has no power over her modes of artistic production. Ramsay reaches the Lighthouse (thus, as we the readers know, reconciling with his son), Lily sees that Mr. She contains him and sees him for what he's worth. So, to the final section: as Lily paints, she manages to use her artwork to gain perspective on Mr. Ramsay may not have been perfect, and in many ways Lily has to overcome her moderating influence, but her pleasure in the everyday gives Lily the tools she needs to find a new way of painting outside of the influence of Mr. Ramsay for years while raising children and doing good.

And the way she reconciles these two opposites is to work through her memories of Mrs. Ramsay,' who, at this point, is a kind of shorthand for the pressures of masculine society, and her painting, which is experimental and private for Lily. The project of her second effort to paint is to reconcile 'Mr. Ramsay (who wants Lily to marry) and the actively oppressive influence of Charles Tansley, Lily never manages to find a way to capture what she's trying to say about life in her art. Under the slightly discouraging influence of Mrs. The third part of To the Lighthouse shows Lily Briscoe picking up a painting that she had worked on throughout the beginning of the novel, which she never finished. This sums up not only the achievement of Lily Briscoe's artistic project, but also of the project of To the Lighthouse as a whole.

Ramsay has arrived at the Lighthouse, his children James and Cam in tow (for more on the significance of this story line, check out both our ' Classic Plot Analysis' and our look at James Ramsay's 'Character Analysis'). To the Lighthouse ends with Lily Briscoe having a revelation about her own work.

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