Elizabeth Bowen's The Demon Lover

The Demon Lover is a short story by Elizabeth Bowen that has a lot of psychoanalytic aspects maximizes the utilization of a number of different suspense triggering elements. It written to test the reader’s imagination in a way and cause them to debate whether what they are reading is a ghost story or the racing mind of a main character going through a pretty vivid hallucination. The spectacles that the writer is making an endeavor at depicting are not substantiated with enough conceivable thinking for the audience to give any confidence to the cadence of scenes that happen. However, with a decent understanding of the way that Elizabeth Bowen writes her literary content, the reader could definitely make an educated assumption that the story
If one is to consider this, then it will be much easier to understand that this is written with reactions that potentially have to do with something from the authors own life. It is very fair to say, that she is writing this literary piece about authentic very genuine phobias, not necessarily simply something as trivial as a ghost. It is important to acknowledge the stress that Bowen places on the past of Drover. The fact that a story this short has the deep personal examples and vividness also leads the reader to believe that the author is writing a lot of this from personal experience because stories this short rarely include this deep level of “random” occurrences to the main story line. Furthermore, although the author uses a lot of intense description, its main goal is to add an additional and outside shift from the story’s own text to internal conflicts that the author clearly suffers from. This story is simply what you get when the author uses his or her own protagonist in their writing for escape and description. It’s an example of a type of therapy which is what psychoanalytic method was also commonly called when Sigmund Freud originated the