Analysis Of The Game By A. S. Byatt

Maybe the first influential involvement in Byatt’s young hood life was the Second World War, during which her family moved to York as a result of the bombing of Sheffield. When she was 13, in 1949, she and her sister were sent to a Mount School, a Quaker boarding school in York. She did not like boarding school, citing her need to be alone and her difficulty in making friends. So far she was not a forthcoming child. A. S. Byatt declares that she felt “panic” about the outside world, and says that she didn’t speak to anyone willingly until she became about sixteen. “I had a strong sense of not knowing how to behave socially, handed down from my mother’s anxiety about having got herself right out of her class. I always knew I had on the wrong
One of the characters in her new novel, The Children’s Book, she says, “represents my greatest terror which is simple domesticity”, “Greatest terror?” She says, decisively: “Yes, I had this image of coming out from under and seeing the light for a bit and then being shut in a kitchen, which I think happened to women of my generation.” Some of Byatt’s feelings about school seem to have made their way into her fiction; in The Game, Cassandra has very bad memories
They are either from there (like William Adamson in Morpho Eugenia) or visit there (like Anna Severell [The Shadow of the Sun] and Randolph Ash and Christabel La Motte {Possession: A Romance}]. The narrator of Morpho Eugenia talks us about the part of Yorkshire from which Adamson comes “consisted of foul black amongst fields and rough land of great beauty.” When we study that Byatt describes her childhood as unhappy and most of her time at Mount School as hard, we might conceive these words as representing her memories of her early life, in which “foul black places” were mixed with “great beauty”.
Myra Stout, the reviewer, marks that Byatt deliberated her collection of short stories Sugar to be so autobiographical that Byatt offered her a copy “to help the factual background of her Yorkshire childhood and family relationships” . The cathedral city in “Recine and the Tablecloth,” with its medieval walls that Emily Bray crosses on her solitary walks to church, may well be a cover for Byatt herself :both seem to have been shy, underdeveloped , and incapable to make many friends easily because they are so much brighter than the