The lighthouse pd james summary5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() There is also William Bankes, an old friend of Mr Ramsay’s. There is Augustus Carmichael, an old gentleman, a poet and Lily Briscoe, who paints, and who (Mrs. Minta Doyle and Paul Rayley are a young man and girl destined to fall in love. Charles Tansley, a disagreeable young man with a pod brain is a student of her husband’s. They have a number of guests staying with them. Mr Ramsay is a scholar, a philosopher, honoured by several universities. She, her husband and eight children, are at their home in the Hebrides. Ramsay, the mother of eight children, is a middle-aged woman, of great charm and fascination. In this way, she is able to create a number of life-like, interesting, rounded figures, who once we are accounted with them, linger long in the memory. ![]() The author is able to concentrate on two or three main figures, and the gain in intensity is enormous. The isolation of a few characters in a remote island results in intensity of effect. The Ramsays have their summer house there and they come to it with their eight children and a number of guests. The scene is laid in the Island of Skye in the Hebrides, near the west coast of Scotland. ![]()
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