The only demons that occur in the story are those of Mrs. Drover’s past: she is constantly betrayed by nervous twitches as “an intermittent muscular flicker to the left of her mouth” (p. 4, l. 36), and by the flash-backs to her cold lover in her youth. Incapable to leave her traumas behind, not a single day passes without being haunted by delusions, which is at a low ebb when she mistakes the taxi driver for her formal fiancé and she drives completely mad. Delusions could also be found in the other story, ‘The Open Window’. Just like in Bowen’s story, one might be mistaken about the fact that the text deals
The only demons that occur in the story are those of Mrs. Drover’s past: she is constantly betrayed by nervous twitches as “an intermittent muscular flicker to the left of her mouth” (p. 4, l. 36), and by the flash-backs to her cold lover in her youth. Incapable to leave her traumas behind, not a single day passes without being haunted by delusions, which is at a low ebb when she mistakes the taxi driver for her formal fiancé and she drives completely mad. Delusions could also be found in the other story, ‘The Open Window’. Just like in Bowen’s story, one might be mistaken about the fact that the text deals