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Elizabeth Bowen's The Demon Lover

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The Demon Lover is an interesting and mysterious short story. Mrs. Drover is the protagonist of the story, while her ex lovers spirit is the antagonist. Mrs. Drover had been his fiancée until he went missing during the world and was presumed killed. Throughout the story she is trying to figure out what’s real and what’s fake. In The Demon Lover, Elizabeth Bowen use flashbacks and diction to portray the theme of fate and the presence of the past. Elizabeth Bowen includes a flashback when Mrs. Drover becomes Mrs. Drover, made some kind of promise with her fiancée. The author is very vague at first when giving information about the promise. The uncertainty concerning the promise is a further source of uneasiness for the readers. We find out that …show more content…

The author describes the house Mrs. Drover walked into by giving it characteristics that suggest it is living. There is a "bruise in the wallpaper" and a piano "had left what looked like claw-marks" (Bowen 36). These descriptions would not create an uneasiness feeling, but a house that bruises and furniture that leaves claw-marks would give a sense of uneasiness that already started to develop. With all of these clear descriptions, the readers would expect a continuing pattern of abnormalities. The suspense build up to what was creating all of the uneasiness, the letter. "She stopped dead and stared at the hall table-on this lay a letter addressed to her" (Bowen 36). When she stopped we wonder what was causing the uneasiness. Then, our attention focuses on the letter and what made her stop? If her response to the letter had of been fear, the readers would loss interest, assuming we knew exactly how the story was going to end. But, instead of fear she showed annoyance. The caretaker negligently placed the letter on the table, "leaving it to wait in the dusk and the dust, annoyed her" (Bowen 36). Then "Annoyed, she picked up the letter" (Bowen 36). since the word "annoyed" was used twice so close together it accentuates the fact that she was not immediately overcome by fear of the letter as you would expect her

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