Through the perspectives and voices of various people close to him, Jacob’s Room follows the life of Jacob Flanders from his childhood through to his young adulthood at the cusp of the First World War. Jacob’s Room is considered to be an excellent example of modernist literature. Intertwining the impressions and feelings of the various narrating characters that relate to him, while Jacob himself remains an abstraction removed from the reader, despite being the central focus of the story.