"The Demon Lover" is a short story by Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen. It was first published in 1945 in a book titled The Demon Lover and Other Stories.
The story was referred to in The New Yorker magazine after its publication as "a completely successful explanation of what war did to the mind and spirit of the English people".
The main character of this, Mrs. Drover, is traumatized after the Blitz, the catastrophic aerial bombardment whic...
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"The Demon Lover" is a short story by Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen. It was first published in 1945 in a book titled The Demon Lover and Other Stories.
The story was referred to in The New Yorker magazine after its publication as "a completely successful explanation of what war did to the mind and spirit of the English people".
The main character of this, Mrs. Drover, is traumatized after the Blitz, the catastrophic aerial bombardment which took place over London between 1940 and 1941. Because of her psychological instability, Mrs. Drover confuses World War II with World War I. Returning home to collect some personal belongings, she remembers her long-missing fiancé to the point where one does not know if this is a gothic story that has some supernatural happenings or simply a story of one character's neurotic mental state. Critics like Daniel V. Fraustino are determined that this story is not about the trauma of World War I and World War II but a “murder mystery of high drama”...
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