Night and Day & Jacob`s Room

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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 the representatives 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 novel form while demonstrating her affection for the literature of the past.

Jacob`s Room (1922),Woolf`s third novel, marks the bold affirmation of her own voice and search for a new form to express her view that ‘the human soul… orientates itself afresh every now & then. It is doing so now. No one can see it whole therefore.’ Jacob`s life is presented in subtle, delicate and tantalising glimpses, the novel`s gaps and silences are as replete with meaning as the wicker armchair creaking in the empty room.