Windeye By Brian Evenson

Psychosis and Fantasy in Brian Evenson’s “Windeye”
In everyone’s childhood, little girls try their mothers’ high-heeled shoes, standing in front of mirrors. Little boys dream of becoming independent men, just like their fathers or super stars. Thus, almost everyone has fantasies about their own future life when one was young, and maybe they fantasize that they are teachers, police, or doctors in the future. All these fantasies are the normal performance of people at different stages. However, there is an illusion that does not match to the normal behavior of one’s psychology and physiology, which causes the person who has different kinds of mental illness. A person’s mental illness can be caused by many reasons, such as the death of a loved one and the experience of an unhappy life. In “Windeye”, Evenson shows the boy who has psychosocial diseases like obsessive compulsive fantasies, post-traumatic stress disorder, and dual personality by describing the boy’s idea “the sister always existed” even though the real fact is different from what he imagines.
Thus, they call the strange thing they find “windeye”. Then, the boy and his sister begin to focus on the window because of their curiosity about the “windeye”, but the sister disappears with a strong smoke. After that, the boy is very anxious to go home and tell her mother what happen. However, her mother denies and tells him that he never has a sister even though he is constantly present the details. The trouble begins in his life at that time. Meanwhile, the boy considers the problem of whether his sister existed for a long time, though he has split with his mother and he accepts treatment by doctors for many years. In the end, the boy cannot stop thinking everything about his sister until he stops his