Although marking the passage beyond heterosexual marriage as a narrative ending, Lily Briscoes rise as even an alternatively public woman and meaning-giver does not then fully dismantle the ideological dichotomy of public/private that To the Lighthouse encodes in Part One as masculine/feminine Mary Lou Emery, Robbed of Meaning: The Work at the Centre of To the Lighthouse. Do you agree with Mary Lou Emerys statement that Western feminism is about the construction of the subject through processes of exclusion? Is this what To the Lighthouse does with Lily? Discuss by making close reference to the text and the article.
