Jacob’s Room (1922) is
Woolf’s third defining novel attested herself as a traditional realist writer
of her period. This novel faced many criticisms on her career and they gauged
her cleverness, which was not only the prime quality of the novelist. This
novel is concerned with interiority and cinematic approach. It begins with the
maternal presence of her mother. The critical character of this novel is Jacob
Flanders. The novel revolves around him and shares his infantile in
Scarborough, edification at Oxford and adulthood in London. The action
consequences shatter throughout the novel like Jacob’s flirt, affairs, Greece
trip and ends with his death. Woolf handles each chapter in different domicile
and time. Woolfian fashion had followed and she puzzles her readers with that.
The central core of Jacob’s character had abstractedly narrated and so failed
to attract the global market.