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Virginia Woolf's center of focus in To the Lighthouse is a woman artist, Lily Briscoe. Lily Briscoe is on the cusp of change for women, moving out of the old position which women occupied as wives and mothers into a new mode of being a woman. The old position is filled by Mrs. Ramsey. Lily Briscoe both admires and disdains the roles Mrs. Ramsey has taken up in life. She most values Mrs. Ramsey's artful ability to bring a group of people together around a moment, to make a moment of time coalesce into something which has meaning for a lifetime. It is just this ability to capture a moment in all its liveliness that Lily strives for in her art.

Lily Briscoe in her painting and Mrs. Ramsey in her ability to bring people together both strive to make the moment last. At Mrs. Ramsey's dinner party, Lily Briscoe makes the choice not to marry; instead she decides to pursue her art. She does not make this choice easily and she is never able fully to move outside of......

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Title: Literature
Approximate Word Count: 896
Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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