The color imagery in "The Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf.

How boring this world would be without colors. Colors not only make life more vibrant, but they can also be linked to characteristics and emotions. In Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, color is frequently used to enhance the imagery and to better represent the characters and the overall setting. Woolf uses each color to further implant imagery in the reader's mind. She uses the color grey to represent the elderly and sleepiness when she wrote, "…

…color is more than just a reflection of different size light rays; it is a representation of what a person goes through everyday. Just as there are many different human characteristics, there are thousands of different colors. By Woolf's use of color imagery, the reader is enlightened as Woolf allows them to look into a kaleidoscope of characteristics and emotions, and lets them view the world from a different perspective and in a different light.