ds dear to her soul except for William Bankes. Like many of us, Lily keeps " a feeler on her surroundings lest someone should creep up." It is this classic case of breaking down barriers and exposing one self to the world that Virginia Woolf captures in a way that the reader recognize at first. Instead, the reader only knows that little by little Lily becomes a character that they actually have something in common with. Being a romantic, I was deeply touched by the portrayal of the love shared between Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay. Woolf deals with this matter in such a sensitive and delicate manner that it only intensifies every ounce of the emotion. I identify most with this aspect of the novel and reading about it made me gush and feel as giddy as if were the one who was in love. Sentences like " They became part of that unreal but penetrating and exciting universe which is the world seen through the eyes of love.", appealed so much to the poetic side of me, and I felt grateful reading it because I was happy that someone was able to express this feeling in so profound a way. The misconception that the Ramsays have a strained relationship is hard for me to understand with prose such as "he seized her hand and raised it to his lips and kissed it with an intensity that brought the tears to her eyes, and quickly he dropped it". To me, this is an expression of love gone beyond the limit. To many, the highest level of love is when you hold the person and cannot let go. However, with this sentence, Woolf is recognizing and making known that there is a love beyond that, where it surpasses anything tangible and becomes something too great to touch with the flesh and rather, it becomes something to be experienced with the soul. Every time I think about the way this novel has affected me I come up with different answers. There are times when I think that it did nothing but frustrate me. Then, there were the times when I truly felt that Woolf was my best ...
