Jacob\047s Room is Virginia Woolf\047s first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, who is both representative and victim of the social values which led Edwardian society into war. Jacob\047s life is traced from the time he is a small boy playing on the beach, through his years in Cambridge, then in artistic London, and finally making a trip to Greece, but this is no orthodox Bildungsroman. Jacob is presented in glimpses, in fragments, as Woolf breaks down traditional ways of representing character and experience. The novel\047s composition coincided with the consolidation of Woolf\047s interest in feminism, and she criticizes the privileged thoughtless smugness of patriarchy, \047the other side\047, \047the men in clubs and Cabinets\047. Her stylistic innovations are conscious attempts to realize and develop women\047s writing and the novel dramatizes her interest in the ways both language and social environments shape differently the lives of men and women.