Friday, April 24, 2020

The Turn of the Screw

Sparknotes had a new section of unreliable narrators and they mentioned The Turn of the Screw. I hadn't read it for years so I thought I'd give it another go.  We're dealing with Henry James, an author people either like or dislike.  I'm one of the few that like.  This is one of his better works.  It doesn't drag and gets to the point.  It's the story about a governess who thinks she's seeing ghosts of the children's past governess and others.  It's either that or she's losing it.  The boy Miles has been kicked out of school.  We don't find out why but she thinks he's an angel.  We aren't particularly sure if she's crazy or not.  Still, it's a fascinating story.  I need to watch The Innocents again, which was a movie version of this novella. 

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