The document summarizes Virginia Woolf's novel "To the Lighthouse". It discusses the themes of the effects of the male head of the family and the struggles of women's creative lives as depicted in the story. Specifically, it notes how Mrs. Ramsey suffers under her husband's nature while Lily Briscoe struggles as an artist but eventually finds success, overcoming social norms of what women can achieve. The conclusion states that the novel expresses different human behaviors and how women struggled through life.