(no subject)

[phineasjones]

"Henry James's Turn of the Screw can be an incredibly frustrating and difficult story. It hints at much, but rarely states anything directly. The sheer number of possible interpretations of the events it describes can make it a difficult read, but the openness of the text to multiple interpretations is also, in some ways, the point of the novel. Henry James constructed his story in order to make allusions to sexual topics without stating anything explicitly. The very language of the story allows sexual implications to proliferate almost endlessly." (some summary/analysis page, i just closed it oops and am too lazy to go back and get the link.)

well, isn't that helpful.

pretty much it seems i was right... ghosts of child molesters. conflicted children. hysterical governess. creepiness.