In her novel To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf uses free indirect discourse to present us with the thoughts, opinions, and feelings of all her characters. This is an interesting technique that presents the reader with a lot of the issues that would have been felt leading up to, during, and after WWI. Because we are not limited in the narrative to the thoughts of a single character, we get pieces of thoughts from many different ones as they interact with one another. For me this really highlighted the insincerity of much of their interaction and conversation. We are presented with a character thinking one thing, and then from the perspective of another we hear that first character saying something that doesn't quite go with what they were thinking. Maybe that description doesn't make sense... but at times the narrative seems to work that way. I think this insincerity that is shown is a result of the disconnectedness that is felt between all of the characters. None of Woolf's characters seem to really be able to relate with and understand one another. Woolf's narrative technique makes this really clear, as we see them all interacting with each other, but each thinking about something different. This insincerity and disconnectedness would have been felt among people in and around the time of the war. 

The second section of the novel, "Time Passes," does something different I think. In this section a lot of time goes by and we see little disconnected glimpses of the house, the characters, and the events of the war and after the war. Again, I think the disconnected nature of things is a comment on the sensibilities that were common as a result of the war. Like with The Wasteland, in a way. They're like puzzle pieces that the characters and people were trying to put back together after things were shattered, but they can't quite seem to make it fit. That's how I interpreted this section. I was also struck by the three major deaths, and how they were presented to us in brackets, with little detail. Just a statement of a fact. This aspect of Woolf's narrative style seems to comment on the fact that death was so common, unexplainable, to the point of being just unfeeling statistics by the end of the war. Although only one of the deaths was a direct result of the war, I think any deaths would have been viewed in this way because of the war.