In "To the Lighthouse" Mrs Ramsay is generally considered a positive character, but what are some of her negative traits?I'm more interested in how...

Mrs. Ramsay is generally considered a positive character
and the final judgement of her in the novel is one that is positive however, she too, as
anyone, has her faults. Mrs. Ramsay is a old fashioned Victorian mother whose relies on
the neediness of others. When she is not "needed", as in the case of Mr. Carmichael, she
is unsure of how to act or connect with him, as she does with everyone else. Being a
Victorian mother living in the Edwardian age, she is socially confined in her ideas of
women and their place in the world. She believes a women's role is as a wife and mother
and that professions, economics, government and the arts are not necessarily a place for
a woman. This is not her fault, she was raised to assume those duties and question
little else, but the new generation of women see her confined conventions of womenhood
as restricting and dated.