To The Lighthouse Character Presentation Savannah Martini, Kristine Chen, Tarika Sivakumar

Rose Ramsay: In the middle of the Ramsay daughters Is aesthetically gifted- organizes her mother’s jewelry and the fruit bowl for the dinner party. Young and beautiful Inquisitive- seen in her scene with Jasper at the beginning when she asks her mother if they should put the dinner party on hold since all their guests haven’t arrived. Doesn’t have much dialogue or internal thought in the novel.

Prue Ramsay: Oldest Ramsay daughter Beautiful young woman “He called them privately after the Kings and Queens of England; Cam the Wicked, James the Ruthless, Andrew the Just, Prue the Fair--for Prue would have beauty, he thought, how could she help it? (26) Characterized only by her beauty

Prue Ramsay “Prue, a perfect angel with the others, and sometimes now, at night especially, she took one's breath away with her beauty.” (61) portrayed as the ideal daughter Mrs. Ramsay enjoys talking about Prue’s marriage has high hopes for her daughter to become the perfect Victorian housewife Focus on beauty → criticize importance of beauty for women in the Victorian era

Nancy Ramsay: Youngest Ramsay daughter Accompanies Andrew, Paul, and Minta on their walk to the beach/cliffs - most prominent position in book Very adventurous, not domestic Contrasts the calm and collected manner of the ideal Victorian woman that her mother is

Nancy Quotes “And Nancy and Roger, they were both wild creatures now, scampering about over the country all day long” (58). “Nancy waded out to her own rocks and searched her own pools and let that couple look after themselves” (75).

Quotes “.... That her daughters, Prue, Nancy, Rose- could sport with infidel ideas which they had brewed for themselves of a life different from hers.” (1.1.9)