Virginia Woolf

Jacob's Room Virginia Woolf

A light sea breeze and soothing sounds of seashore opened the novel. A widow and a mother of three boys, whose name was Betty Flanders, was busy writing a letter to her old friend. The picturesque shores of Cornwall were a perfect playground for her boys, so she got some time for grieving for her dead husband. Later on, the family returned to their home, which was situated in Scarborough. When the night fell, the terrible storm started. Having decided to check on her boys, Betty noticed that Jacob took a goat skull he had found on the shore to a bed with him. That was a rather strange picture to see, the little boy and the skull of a dead animal lying together. Although Betty was not a young woman and had three children, she had two suitors, but never got married again. It turned out to be that Jacob was a bright young man, for he managed to enter Cambridge University. In spite of the fact that his family had never had a lot of money and his upbringing could be described only as rural, he found good friends there. Once, when he and one of his friends, Timothy, visited the home town of the latter, Jacobs met the rest of Timothy's family. Both his mother and sister, Mrs. Durrant and Clara liked Jacob immensely.