The text under analysis presents a piece of interior monologue taken from "To the lighthouse  by Virginia Woolf. The interior monologues are used to recreate the character's intimate thoughts. Virginia Woolf was one of the authors who was fighting to gain recognition for women's role in society. That is why she follows the stream of consciousness or thought patterns of her characters so that the reader can see inside women's mind. We can observe that in the extract under study. The extract presents an omniscient third-person narration. It looks like the author knows everything about the inner world of the character. Mrs. Ramsay is a warm, self-sacrificing, devoted to her family woman. Her thoughts follow a pattern of free associations, but her thought pattern is formed by one predominant thought and this thought is a series of questions like "Why should they grow up so fast?  or "why they must grow up and lose it all? . These are rhetorical questions, there is no answer on them, the main character just agonizes over the reality that eventually her children will become older and they will abandon her. The paragraph starts with an exclamatory sentence: "oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older!  it shows her actual attitude towards her children. She wants to keep them the way they are: "demons of wickedness, angels of delight . Metaphors, which are used here, and antithesis represent the real childish behavior. Sometimes they are unbearable, naughty, sometimes they are sweet like small angels, but it makes childhood the most wonderful time in the whole life. Because on that stage, children are innocent, they do not hurt anyone, they are not cruel or disobedient. That is why the main character does not want to see them grow up in "long-legged monsters . The aim of this metaphor here is to emphasize that frequently children become ungrateful, egoistical, selfish, self-important, rude and cruel when they grow up.