As they travel, the children are silent in protest at their father for forcing them to come along.

The trip almost does not happen, as the children are not ready, but they eventually set off. Mr Ramsay finally plans on taking the long-delayed trip to the lighthouse with daughter Cam(illa) and son James (the remaining Ramsay children are virtually unmentioned in the final section). In the final section, “The Lighthouse,” some of the remaining Ramsays and other guests return to their summer home ten years after the events of Part I. McNab worked in the Ramsay's house since the beginning, and thus provides a clear view of how things have changed in the time the summer house has been unoccupied. This section is told from an omniscient point of view and occasionally from Mrs. Mr Ramsay is left adrift without his wife to praise and comfort him during his bouts of fear and anguish regarding the longevity of his philosophical work. Mrs Ramsay dies, as do two of her children - Prue dies from complications of childbirth, and Andrew is killed in the war. Ten years pass, during which the First World War begins and ends. The second section gives a sense of time passing, absence, and death. Mrs Ramsay is herself out of sorts when Paul Rayley and Minta Doyle, two acquaintances whom she has brought together in engagement, arrive late to dinner, as Minta has lost her grandmother's brooch on the beach. When Augustus Carmichael, a visiting poet, asks for a second serving of soup, Mr Ramsay nearly snaps at him. The section closes with a large dinner party. Tansley himself is an admirer of Mr Ramsay, a philosophy professor, and his academic treatises. Briscoe finds herself plagued by doubts throughout the novel, doubts largely fed by the claims of Charles Tansley, another guest, who asserts that women can neither paint nor write. One of them, Lily Briscoe, begins the novel as a young, uncertain painter attempting a portrait of Mrs. The Ramsays and their eight children have been joined at the house by a number of friends and colleagues. This particular incident is referred to on various occasions throughout the section, especially in the context of Mr and Mrs Ramsay's relationship. This prediction is denied by Mr Ramsay, who voices his certainty that the weather will not be clear, an opinion that forces a certain tension between Mr and Mrs Ramsay, and also between Mr Ramsay and James. The section begins with Mrs Ramsay assuring her son James that they should be able to visit the lighthouse on the next day. The novel is set in the Ramsays' summer home in the Hebrides, on the Isle of Skye.

To the lighthouse 1927