The Demon Lover Essay

“The Demon Lover,” the title of two similar short stories about evil men. I have certain claims about what I think each character is like, both men and women in the ballad and story. I will describe what each plot is like in both stories. I will explain each story's theme. I will also point out what each mood is like. The characters in the story are Mrs. Drover and her fiance. I feel like Mrs. Drover is a woman who is brave. Mrs. Drover is brave because she wanted to return to her house in London during war times. She leaves the safety of the countryside to go back to her original home she evacuated. Mrs. Drover does this for her family, for one of her boys who has a serious illness. The fiance is evil, because he had never really been kind to Mrs. Drover. He had left a weal on Mrs. Drover’s hand upon leaving her. The characters in the ballad are the man and woman. The man was the devil, but also was the woman’s fiance (seven years ago). I felt the man was loyal to his marriage vows and kept his promise to marry the woman by not getting married to a “king’s daughter,” and coming back to her. Unlike the man, the woman had moved on and got married to another, therefore not keeping her …show more content…
Drover goes to her house alone. She is looking for supplies for her family to take back with her. Mrs. Drover had seen the letter and read it. Reading of the letter caused a flash back of the man. She continued to get the things she came back for, while trying to avoid the man that wrote the letter. As Mrs. Drover thought it was time to leave she gets into a taxi that was outside to take her back to her family. The man who ad wrote the letter was the one who was driving the taxi, and he takes her away. The plot for “The Demon Lover,” ballad was the man returns for the woman but she is remarried.The man lies about the things to give her if she were to come back with him because he is the devil. The devil gets his revenge by drowning