Jacob vs. Clarissa

It is interesting that you comment on the way she transitions beteween characters. I liked Jacob's Room better for the same reasons. It was less connected. For me the disjointed way that Woolf went about it seemed to keep the characters separate and in that more real.

The way Mrs. Dalloway flows from one character to another with almost no disruption, while being well written, makes the piece to fluid for me to accept. I am not saying that it was not good, just that the jarring motion around Jacob, the way one person was seen by him then set drastically off sitting next to what that person thought of Jacob, defined a more real image.

But that is just a difgference in opinion of what is working. I agree that Mrs. Dalloway is well written (probably better in style than Jacob's...) but there is something about the young impressionable freshness of the first piece.