Originally Posted by
Gladys
Isn't the lighthouse simply a pretext, as important as any other, that supplies for a while something of a raison d'être for the Ramsay family and a few "close" friends? And a decade, and a world war, later a few of them as good as reach it - well, almost. And that they seem to, might conceivably mean something, if not for them then for those, like Lily Briscoe and the late Mrs Ramsay, who don't.
Isn't the lighthouse a destination not too different from where some of us are heading, either sooner or later or, as circumstances change, perhaps not at all? Best to keep positive, I think.
Did you enjoy the novel, Tony? It rather grew on me after a slow start.