Revenge of The Demon Lover
A promise is a promise, in return to a failed promise revenge will always take place. In the short story The Demon Lover, Bowen uses the primary character Mrs. Drover, to depict how far one person will go for revenge and the internal conflict of a memory. Mrs. Drover is murdered by an ex-lover who wants his bitter revenge after a failed promise.
Elizabeth Bowen was born in 1899 and died in 1973, she was an upper middle class writer, from Dublin, Ireland. The turn of her life was the death of her mother, she incorporated the abandonment in her fiction (Bowen 1228). When her mother passed she was sent off to boarding school, she used that initiative to write (“Elizabeth Bowen” oxfordbibliographies.org). During the loss and mourning of her mother, Elizabeth Bowen feels …show more content…
The betrayal between two lovers and a broken promise result in the murder of Mrs. Drover. The murder demonstrated just how far human nature will go to obtain revenge.
Works Cited
Bowen, Elizabeth. “The Demon Lover.” 1945. Print.
Calder, Robert L. “A More Sinister Troth’: Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘The Demon
Lover”questia.com.1994.www.questia.com/library/Journal/1G1-15356414/a-more-sinsite
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Coy-Dibley Isabelle. “Reconceptualising Elizabeth Bowen’s WWII Stories and the Queer
perspective.Academia.edu-shareresearch.18Jan.2013,www.acadmia.edu/9378811/Reconceptualising_Elizabeth_bowen_S_WWII_Stories_and_the_queer_perspective.
“Obo.” Elizabeth Bowen- British and irish Literature- Oxford Bibliographies, 4 jan 2018.
www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199846719/obo-9780199846719-0032.Xml.
Thompson, Terry W,”A Face You Do Not Expect’: The Female Other in Elizabeth Bowen’s
Journal of the short story in English. Les Cahiers De La Nouvelle, Presses Universities D
Angers, 1 June 2012,
A promise is a promise, in return to a failed promise revenge will always take place. In the short story The Demon Lover, Bowen uses the primary character Mrs. Drover, to depict how far one person will go for revenge and the internal conflict of a memory. Mrs. Drover is murdered by an ex-lover who wants his bitter revenge after a failed promise.
Elizabeth Bowen was born in 1899 and died in 1973, she was an upper middle class writer, from Dublin, Ireland. The turn of her life was the death of her mother, she incorporated the abandonment in her fiction (Bowen 1228). When her mother passed she was sent off to boarding school, she used that initiative to write (“Elizabeth Bowen” oxfordbibliographies.org). During the loss and mourning of her mother, Elizabeth Bowen feels …show more content…
The betrayal between two lovers and a broken promise result in the murder of Mrs. Drover. The murder demonstrated just how far human nature will go to obtain revenge.
Works Cited
Bowen, Elizabeth. “The Demon Lover.” 1945. Print.
Calder, Robert L. “A More Sinister Troth’: Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘The Demon
Lover”questia.com.1994.www.questia.com/library/Journal/1G1-15356414/a-more-sinsite
r-troth-elizabeth-bowen-s-the-demon.
Coy-Dibley Isabelle. “Reconceptualising Elizabeth Bowen’s WWII Stories and the Queer
perspective.Academia.edu-shareresearch.18Jan.2013,www.acadmia.edu/9378811/Reconceptualising_Elizabeth_bowen_S_WWII_Stories_and_the_queer_perspective.
“Obo.” Elizabeth Bowen- British and irish Literature- Oxford Bibliographies, 4 jan 2018.
www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199846719/obo-9780199846719-0032.Xml.
Thompson, Terry W,”A Face You Do Not Expect’: The Female Other in Elizabeth Bowen’s
Journal of the short story in English. Les Cahiers De La Nouvelle, Presses Universities D
Angers, 1 June 2012,