I also disliked his long, drawn out sentence structures, which led me to be confused as to what was going on: James has a strange way of relating events, and, rather than using dialogue or descriptions, he uses stream of consciousness. This is when things begin to turn strange.Īs much as I found I could not put down this novel, I found myself zoning out, still reading the words but not necessarily taking them in. She sees him again, staring in at her from a window, but when she investigates, the man has vanished. After a few days of living at Bly, the governess sees a strange figure standing in the tower of the manor house. She soon receives a letter from Miles’s headmaster, claiming that he shall not be returning to school, however the letter does not state what Miles has done that deserves expulsion. She thinks the children to be the most beautiful things she has ever laid eyes on. It begins with her first day at Bly, the country home where she has been sent for to look after Flora and Miles. The novel switches form to the governess’s manuscript. This governess, who was ten years his senior, left him a manuscript when she died, relating all the events that happened while she was in charge of two children, Flora and Miles. A guest in attendance named Douglas introduces his ghost story, that involves his sister’s governess who he was in love with. The novel begins with an anonymous narrator, who recalls one Christmas Eve spent telling ghost stories around a fire in an old country manor. However, I actually sort of enjoyed this book.
Ever since then, the name Henry James hasn’t really filled me with confidence. Me and Henry James set off on a bad foot when I read ‘the American’, possibly one of the most boring books I’ve ever read.
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