【正文】 s critical ideas will be made in three aspects: feminism and thoughts of aadrogyny, the two already familiar parts。s Own, which implies that Woolfs androgynous visions are no abrupt flashing thoughts, the broadening of the meaning of the word uandrogyny,? and the formation of such thoughts must take long. Therefore, it can be reasoned out that the thoughts of gender differences lie in the longterm formation of thoughts of androgyny.As a female reader, what attracts and touches me most is Woolf profound concern over women: their lives，their situations as the eak sex? in society and their relations to men and to literary creation. A careful reader may know that the research on male principle, female principle and manwoman relationship is done throughout Woolfs lifetime and work. Her thoughts of gender differences bee very important in feminist criticism as her feminist idea is a brave challenge to totalitarian and patriarchal social structure of her time. Even in modern times, in the context of the widespread interest in questions of sexual tendencies and manwoman relation, Woolf thinking is like a lighthouse, guiding us to pursue a perfect human existing environment, where man and woman live in harmony together. As Woolf in her essay, A Room of One39。 2) the meaning of androgyny is broadened by Woolf, though it derives from Greek。 however, such researches have not been carried into depth as the thoughts of gender differences are the source of aLl Woolf feminist thoughts.From the access to (the fulltext database of Chinese periodicals) through , if we retrieve irginia Woolf?as the title, there will be 246 discourses in all, implying that up till now, more than 200 people have chosen Woolf as their theme. In addition, if we retrieve o the Lighthouse?as the title，the results will be 166, which supports the abovementioned conclusion much research has been done on the novel To the Lighthouse. However, if we retrieve both the words Woolf? and 4igender,? as the title, the answer turns out to be only 9 in all. Of these 9 discourses, three focus on her 3 novels: Orlando, Mrs. Dalloway and The Waves39。 2) on the creation of characters Woolf portrays, in the novel, the main characters Mrs. Ramsay and Lily Briscoe, whose image and significance are worth more attention。s Essays in 2001. In 2002, Yi Xiaoming^ Elegance and Insanity: Virginia Woolf39。s Critical Essays. Qu published his monograph: Virginia Woolf: the Novel Stream of Consciousness in 1989. Li Naikun selected some of Woolfs critical essays,stories and parts of novels and edited them into the book Virginia Woolf39。 most of it is written as thoughts and observations. It recalls the power of childhood emotions and highlights the impermanence of adult relationships.The novel consists of three parts: Part I The Window, Part II Time Passes and Part III The Lighthouse.In Part I，the novel is set in the Ramsay summer home in the Hebrides, on the Isle of Skye. The section begins with Mrs. Ramsay assuring James that they should be able to visit the lighthouse on the next day. This prediction is denied by Mr. Ramsay, who voices his certainty that the weather will not be clear, an opinion that forces a certain tension between Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay and also between Mr. Ramsay and James. This particular incident is referred to on various occasions throughout the chapter, especially in the context of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay relationship. The Ramsays have been joined at the house by a number of friends and colleagues, one of them being Lily Briscoe, who begins the novel as a young, uncertain painter attempting a portrayal of Mrs. Ramsay and her son James. Briscoe finds herself plagued by doubts throughout the novel, doubts largely fed by the statements of Charles Tansley, another guest, claiming that women can neither paint nor write. Tansley himself is an admirer of Mr. Ramsay and his philosophical treatises.The second section is employed by the author to give a sense of time passing. V8explained the purpose of this section, writing that it was uan interesting experiment (that gave) the sense of ten years passing?（Dick and Woolf, 1983: 2). This section role in linking two dominant parts of the story was also expressed in Woolf?s notes for the novel, where above a drawing of an ，?shape she wrote wo blocks joined by a corridor?（ibid.: 11). During this period Britain began and finished fighting World War I. In addition, the reader is informed as to the fates of a number of characters introduced in the first part of the novel: Mrs. Ramsay passes away, Prue dies from plications of childbirth, and Andrew is killed in the war. Mr. Ramsay is left adrift without his wife to praise and fort him during his bouts of fear and his anguish when he docs his philosophical work.In the final section，he Lighthouse?，some of the remaining Ramsays return to their summer home ten years after the events of Part I, as Mr. Ramsay finally plans on taking the longdelayed trip to the lighthouse with his son James and daughter Cam(illa). The trip does not happen, as the children had not been ready, but they eventually take off. While they set sail for the lighthouse, Lily attempts to plete her longunfinished painting. She reconsiders Mrs. Ramsay?s memory, grateful for her help in pushing Lily to continue with her art, yet at the same time struggling to free herself from the tacit control Mrs. Ramsay had over other aspects of her life. Upon finishing the painting aad seeing that it satisfies her, she realizes that the execution of her vision is more important to her than the idea of leaving some sort of legacy in her work a lesson Mr. Ramsay has yet to learn. The Critical Responses to To the Lighthouse Abroad and in ChinaSince its publication in 1927, To the Lighthouse has maintained critical predominance. The novel is widely regarded as Woolfs most successful work in using stream of consciousness narrative, nonlinear plot and interior mono