The Window By Brian Evenson Summary

The story featured in this essay is “The Window” by Brian Evenson. The character is telling his friend about the obscure dream he had, or even possibly a real event that occurred that he is still trying to decipher. He is unsure if it even happened because the details are a little fuzzy and quite literally, out of this world. The character keeps distorting perspectives which does not seem to have a purpose until later, when he describes that at the point he feels an out of body experience. As in, he is there in body, but he feels as if he is looking down upon his body. In the story, he mentions hearing a noise more than once he decides to grab his only weapon nearby, the biggest book in his room to somehow deter the intruder.
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Resembling the mindset of a child who believes there is a boogeyman hiding underneath their bed or in their closet. His mindset has been reduced to that of a child’s, which could be because of his lack of sleep and that tends to have an adverse effect on someone’s mental capacity. This makes him very untrustworthy, because the evidence to prove his vision has ‘disappeared’ and his lack of sleep illustrates his decreased mental capability. His mind has conjured up this boogeyman which still haunts him. I notice differences between Nathaniel’s boogeyman in “The Sandman” and these characters. In Nathaniel’s tale, we get a background of what transpired in his life that led to his insanity. Whereas, for our character in “The Window” we get none of that, not even a name. Which asserts back to an earlier idea as to why we were cheated out of a name for the character. The audience does not know the character’s life or name and this makes this story very vague. It offers more questions than answers and is open to