It is said that the novel To The Lighthouse is one of the most famous novels of nineteenth century.

Through this book, Virginia Woolf attempts to make a transition from the Victorian period to Modernism. She portrays the typical Victorian woman in Mrs Ramsay: she is caring, loving and always worries about her family, but not about herself. The lighthouse is for her, her refuge, and she refuses to leave it because she feels safe there. Cita sobre me gustan las puertas cerradas y las ventanas abiertas, claimed Mrs Ramsay in the book. This might be the answer to the fact that having doors closed avoids changes and protects the house, meanwhile having the Windows opened she can observe the outside world without taking part of it. This fact leads us to the symbolism of windows (and doors), which in Woolfs writing and personal life, create a private and safe world. From there, charactersand even Virginia Woolf herselfcan see reality but from a certain distance, not getting involved in it too much. Mrs. Ramsey does not wish to be removed from the natural landscape, but prefers and feels safer to observe it at a distance through the frame of the windows, or even from behind the casing of the hedges