Minta Doyle - TTL Character Presentation By: Shama Joshi, Dedeepya Gudipati and Ankit Madira

Who is she? / Age Nancy’s friend who was invited to stay with the Ramsay family 24 years old “...Minta, who was only twenty-four…” (10, end) Has golden-red hair and brown eyes “For he, her husband, felt it too — Minta’s glow; he liked these girls, these golden- reddish girls” (17, middle)

Relationship to Ramsay Parents Liked by Mrs. Ramsay “Mrs. Ramsay thought (and she was very, very fond of Minta), to accept that good fellow” (10, middle) Ridiculed by Mr. Ramsay “...he [Mr. Ramsay] liked telling her she was a fool. And so tonight, directly he laughed at her, she was not frightened.” (17, middle)

Relationship to Ramsay Children Friends with Nancy “There was something, of course, that people wanted; for when Minta took her hand and held it, Nancy, reluctantly, saw the whole world spread out beneath her...” (14, beginning) Admired by Andrew “Minta, Andrew observed, was rather a good walker. She wore more sensible clothes that most women. She wore very short skirts and black knickerbockers. She would jump straight into a stream and flounder across” (14, middle)

Relationship to Other Characters Engaged to Paul? “Minta Doyle and Paul Rayley had not come back then. That could only mean, Mrs. Ramsay thought, one thing. She must accept him, or she must refuse him” (10, beginning)

Dislikes Bulls Shakespeare “She seemed to be afraid of nothing — except bulls” (14, Beginning) Shakespeare “Then Minta Doyle, whose instinct was fine, said bluffly, absurdly, that she did not believe that any one really enjoyed reading Shakespeare” (17, end)

Likes Being a tomboy Her brooch Being independent “...how did they produce this incongruous daughter? this tomboy Minta, with a hole in her stocking?” (10, middle) Her brooch Being independent “She didn’t seem to mind what she said or did” (14, beginning).

Images/Symbols “Minta cried out that she had lost her grandmother's brooch-- her grandmother's brooch, the sole ornament she possessed” (14 Middle) “They must have seen it, she said, with the tears running down her cheeks, the brooch which her grandmother had fastened her cap with till the last day of her life. Now she had lost it. She would rather have lost anything than that!” (14, middle)

Motivations/ why behave the way she does? Acts very ignorantly on purpose to attract the attention of the men. The attention that she gains from these men makes her more comfortable with who she is and makes her feels better about herself. “she never knew what happened in the end; but afterwards she got on perfectly, and made herself out even more ignorant than she was… she knew, directly she she came into the rom room that the miracle happened… Yes tonight she had it, tremendously… She sat beside him, smiling. (Chapter 17, page 98)

Works Cited Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1927. Print.