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Identity In Elizabeth Bowen's The Demon Lover

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Elizabeth Bowen’s short story the Demon Lover is about how paranoia from the past can make a person lose themselves and their identity. As the main character, Mrs. Drover, is at her old childhood home to pick some things up, she “stopped dead and stared at the hall table - on this lay a letter addressed to her” (Bowen 4). This mysterious letter says that some love from her past will come to meet her that day. This causes Mrs. Drover to flashback to the day an old soldier-lover left her, and how her identity changed because how her family thinks of her changed that day. After reading the letter, she promises herself that “the letter’s entrance she was not permitting her mind to dwell” (Bowen 13). However, this is only a lie she tells herself,
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