Virginia Woolf is a stream‐of‐consciousness novelist. The prominent feature of her stream‐of‐consciousness novels is that she penetrates into the inner world of people and depicts the inner world of characters in a more thorough way. Woolf's application of the element of the sea to the creation of literary works can maximize the expressiveness of the stream of consciousness novels, especially in describing the psychological and spiritual activities of the characters. The unimaginative flow of consciousness and numerous image setting successfully build the uniqueness of the stream of consciousness novels.