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The Role Of Confidant In Henry James's The Turn Of The Screw

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In Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw, the confidant plays a crucial role in the development of the book and several theories of what happens in the book. A confidant has a high sense of sensibility and the main character (In the case of this story, the governess), expresses their innermost and deepest thoughts to this person. The only person that could be the confidant in this case is Mrs. Grose, considering that she is the only person the governess really has to talk to at all. Once the governess first arrives at Bly, she talks to Mrs. Grose on the daily, as she is the only person there who there really is to talk to who is not a maid or servant. Mrs. Grose really becomes the governess’s confidant when the ghost of Peter Quint is seen for
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