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"In To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf's undermining of traditional male and female distinctions is directed at contrasting male and female and in showing the need of each for the other not merely in biological terms but in mental terms. Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay contrast with other characters in the novel to show the difference between a mind essentially all male or all female and the androgynous mind, a mind yearning more toward unified humanity than a single sexual identity.
The primary contrast is between Mrs. Ramsay and Lily, the artist, the individual who best understands the need for the merging of male and female. She completes her painting because she has this understanding, the fusion of seeming opposites. Yet, Lily also admires Mrs. Ramsay seeing her as one who resolved everything into simplicity; made these angers.."

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