So waves do a couple things in To the Lighthouse. Ramsay is the center of the household, in addition to the idea that she is separate and apart from everyone else (literally separated by a pane of glass). The window is therefore the physical manifestation of the more abstract idea that Mrs. Bankes gazes adoringly at her, Lily looks at her critically in order to properly paint her, and Mr. Ramsay as the centerpiece of the whole tableau. Ramsay is walking, Lily is painting, the children are playing cricket. Ramsay in a very static position, while everyone else is caught up in dynamic movement: Mr. Lily Briscoe is attempting to paint them. Ramsay spends her afternoon sitting at a window, reading to James. Ramsay saying, "Pretty pretty." The Window And that’s expressed symbolically by the hen in the road and Mr. Ramsay’s turn to the domestic life is what killed their friendship. Bankes is trying to say – and he does say it later – that Mr. So what’s with the hen? Why not a tree stump or a horse? Well, a hen protecting her chicks is pretty domestic. The two of them were down metaphorically different roads. Bankes, that’s when their friendship stopped. Ramsay goes, "Pretty pretty." According to Mr. Ramsay are walking down the road when a hen comes flying up to protect her chicks, and Mr.
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