To The Lighthouse

[I.Drink.Your.Milkshake]

(it's kind of leftist. Virginia Woolf was a socialist... i think... )

I wonder if anyone here can clarify something for me - I've read in more than a couple of sources that it "does not have an omniscient narrator"... but insofar as I understand the term (an all knowing, all seeing God like figure that knows all the thoughts and feelings of all teh characters all the time), it does very much so have an omniscient narrator. Its third person omniscient, is it not?

If anyone can help with this it would be much appreciated. im writing my English essay on it and understanding the narration in an essay on "narrative voice and style" is probably a pretty central aspect...

[Rakhmetov]

See if this helps:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Lighthouse


http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/lighthouse/

[I.Drink.Your.Milkshake]

Thanks. Also ive just finished reading the wiki article on omniscient narrator and understand now why it cant be classified as such - an omniscient narrator can know things the characters dont know. The way To The Lighthouse is written means the narration can only report what the characters know. I think its free indirect style.