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“THE DEMON LOVER”
By Elizabeth Bowen
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“THE DEMON LOVER”Allusion
• English Ballad
• Absent lover
• Intervening
marriage• Desertion upon lover’s return
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“THE DEMON LOVER”Setting and
Mood• PRESENT• Month and year: August, 1941• War: London Blitz WWII• House with cracks on a deserted street• Weather: Humid, sunny day interrupted by rain
• PAST• August 1916, WWI
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“THE DEMON LOVER”Setting and
Mood• Shut-up house• Steamy, showery day• Humid, yellow, afternoon sun• Batch of clouds…ink-dark• Broken chimney• Cat wove itself • No human eye watcher Mrs. Drover’s return
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“THE DEMON LOVER”Setting and
MoodDeath and Decay
• War destroyed London - blitz
• Buildings and silence
• Abandoned
• Lives lost
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“THE DEMON LOVER”Flashback &
Foreshadowing• Fiancé left for war and went missing
• Letter signed “K” from fiancé • Fiancé alive• Indicates she might have to confront him
• She broke promise
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“THE DEMON LOVER”PoV
3rd Person OmniscientGod-like perspective not
restricted to time and placeSwitches to 1st person – why?
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“THE DEMON LOVER”Protagonist
Mrs. Kathleen Drover• Age: • 44 years old
• Family: • husband, 3 boys, sister
• Physical appearance• Thin from wartime rations
Stability and dependability
Completely unnerved by the
letter
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“THE DEMON LOVER”Symbolism
Structurally unsound HOUSE• Wartime damage• Mrs. Drover’s PSYCHE is damaged by war• Muscular flicker on the side of her
mouth
• Lost husband, displaced family
• Letter and taxi – exist??
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“THE DEMON LOVER”Symbolism
The CLOCK• Passage of time
• Importance of time
• WWI – peace – WWII
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“THE DEMON LOVER”SymbolismThe LETTER
• Signed by “K” – her own initial
• WWII triggers repressed memories of WWI –
lover
• Cannot remember lover’s face (may be
Everyman)
• War is a DEMON that lingers over her
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“THE DEMON LOVER”Symbolism
The TAXI and the DRIVER• Knows where to take her• Heaven (save) or Hell (torture)• Can’t escape from taxi…WAR
• Driver• Only sees his face • Can’t remember face of fiancé• Does it/he exist??• Who do you think it is??
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“THE DEMON LOVER”Themes
Appearance vs. Reality• Similar to “The Necklace”
Heaven vs. Hell
Sanity vs. Insanity
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“THE DEMON LOVER”Themes
Death vs. Life – surviving the war
War vs. Peace – after WWI• War disrupts Drover’s family• Takes her fiancé• Internal war of lover returning• War or driver cause her to scream in
taxi?
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“THE DEMON LOVER”
By Elizabeth Bowen
Does she see the visage of her fiancé?
OR
Does she have an emotional and psychological breakdown?