Susan is homesick and longs to be back at the farm with her father, Rhoda resents that her solitude is interrupted by forced social interactions at school, and Jinny feels ready to begin her real life and enter society. The girls don’t seem to respond as well to the concept of boarding school and are mainly looking forward to it coming to an end. It is here that they meet Percival, who is to become an important figure in each of their lives. Each develops his own literary ambitions, although they have vastly different sensibilities in their creative pursuits. The boys, Bernard, Louis, and Neville, have different reactions upon arrival at their school, and to the traditions and authority upheld there. Each of the characters has been sent off to separate boarding schools, one for the boys and one for the girls. In the second section, the characters move into their teenage years. Their distinct personalities begin to emerge. In this way, the reader becomes acquainted with each character through his or her inner monologue as well as their outer presence in the world and interactions with one another. The reader is privy to the internal thoughts of each child upon waking. The beginning of the novel deals with early morning and childhood, as the six characters attend grade school. It is widely believed that these characters are based on people from Woolf’s own life, her friends and family. There is also a seventh character, Percival, although he does not deliver his own soliloquy so the reader never learns much about his life. It comprises third-person descriptions of a coastal scene as well as soliloquies delivered by the six characters of the book: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis. The form of the book is abstract, and it is considered her most experimental work, blurring the lines between prose and poetry. The Waves is a 1931 novel by Virginia Woolf.

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