Jacob's Room / Night and Day - Dorinda PhD Guest

Virginia Woolf's second novel, Night and Day (1919), portrays the gradual changes in a society,the patterns and conventions of which are slowly disintegrating; where therepresentatives of the younger generation struggle to forge their own way, for `... life has to be faced: to be rejected; then accepted on new terms with rapture'.� Woolf begins to experiment with the novelform while demonstrating her affection for the literature of the past. �Jacob's Room (1922), Woolf's third novel, marks the bold affirmationof her own voice and search for a new form to express her view that `the humansoul . �orientates itself afresh everynow & then. It is doing so now. No one can see it whole therefore.' �Jacob's life is presented in subtle, delicateand tantalising glimpses, the novel's gaps and silences are as replete withmeaning as the wicker armchair creaking in the empty room.