Night and Day & Jacob's Room

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