to the lighthouse

Time Passes chapter
10 years pass as the house deteriorates and there is a radical shift of perspective
People die and the living move on
in Dalloway, there is only one day of things happening, dilated time, so much going on and everyone interacting and playing with time because the text goes back into the character's histories,
but Lighthouse is expansive and takes longer
Dalloway--flashing, quick scenes, contracted time
Lighthouse--recreating moments of being simultaneously inserting the events surrounding the special times

(back to) time passes--lights dim on characters of those who die, Lily's light is on? And Mr. Charmichael's lamp, and the darkness descends during the ten years of the war
Mrs. Ramsay's death occurs, words create pictures, read it like poetry
part 1 is set in summer, moving on to autumn, forwarding into winter and the darkness of a world at war
the Light has gone out of the World because Mrs. Ramsay dies, leaving Mr. Ramsay lost
Lily takes over but she doesn't have the same 'mythic' qualities as Mrs. Ramsay, the fullness of giving her all for those she loved; Lily is the 'road not taken' and sorta like Elizabeth Dalloway in that she has new opportunities more than she's a 'new woman'
Mr Ramsay imposes himself on everyone like the doctors who impose themselves on Septimus and Lily cannot paint because of him, rather his impositions
Mrs Ramsay made herself happy by doing for others, by fulfilling other's wishes and needs; Lily does not find happiness by doing for others and Mr Ramsay doesn't get it, doesn't understand why things are the way they are
All he needed was her to say something anything nice--she compliments his boots as a last resort and bam! their relationship is healed