The Demon Lover
The narrating voice for The Demon Lover is of the third person outside the fictional world. However, the point of view is inside the fictional world as the narrator is telling the reader about the thoughts in Mrs. Drovers mind. This is demonstrated in the line (3rd paragraph, p347) "She thought first-then the caretaker must be back." This is backed further by (1st paragraph, p348) "She felt so much the change in her own face that she went to the mirror," these examples show that one should not trust the narrator.When first reading the narrative, I felt that the story had a clear-cut ending. Mrs Drover is driven off screaming by the taxi driver (Last paragraph, p352). When investigating further, I found the narrator had misled me. She is carried off, but far from being alive when she got into the taxi, she was already dead. This is shown at the beginning of the story. The first paragraph (p346) indicates that Mrs.Drover has already died. If one looks at the line (1st paragraph, p346) "but no human eye watched Mrs. Drover's return." This, and (1st paragraph, p346) "Dead air came out to meet her as she went in." There is further ref
The deliberate mention of bombing and that Mrs.Drover could not do anything about the structural damage shows me that she is dead, killed by the bombing. During the course of the analepsis, one is told of the reason for the letter, a twenty-five year old troth. Several references are made that compound my thoughts that Mrs.Drover has died. (Line 8, p349), her lover "K" " 'I shall be with you,' he said, " 'sooner or later. You won't forget that. You need do nothing but wait.' " Further on one discovers (3rd paragraph, p349) that he is "missing, presumed killed ." This, and the point made (2nd paragraph, p350) about the letter being delivered, "There is needed some human hand-" indicates to me that Mrs.Drover has to be dead to meet her dead ex-lover. Prolepsis disrupts the story time when Mrs.Drover anticipates getting out of the house, to get to a taxi and "fly". This begins in paragraph3, page 350, she anticipates getting home to her family, and getting away from what is frightening her. Mrs.Drover is described as "prosaic", (2nd paragraph, p346) and this is why she has not realised that not only is she dead, so is the person who wrote and de
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Approximate Word count = 776
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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