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This is a 4 page paper discussing the various perspectives of Elizabeth Bowen’s short story “The Demon Lover”. The analysis is preceded by a brief biography of the Bowen. Elizabeth Bowen’s short story “The Demon Lover” is considered one of her most analyzed and controversial works in terms of content and implied intention of the writer. Written during the beginning of World War II, the story is about a woman, Mrs. Kathleen Drover, who returns to her home to pick up some things to take back to her family while they are staying in the country during the bombing. Or is it? Critics of the story have various theories about the actual intent and events which take place in the tale. While some critics view the story purely from a horror perspective in which her former psychotic lover from World War I returns, other critics believe that her journey is one from a psychological perspective while others again argue that the tale was written in an allegorical sense and depicts the horror and terror of war itself.
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Court in County Cork. In 1906, Elizabeth and her mother moved to the south coast of England as her ailing father was advised to stay home in Ireland. When her
mother died when Elizabeth was 13, she was raised by a number of aunts. Bowen attended the schools of Harpenden and Orpington in Kent and left school in 1917 (Darwood).
Bowen married Alan Cameron in 1923 and lived in Oxford where many of her friends were well known in the literary field including Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot and Graham Greene
among others. When her father died in 1930, Bowen inherited Bowens Court and she spent most of her time split between Ireland and England until she sold the Irish property
in 1960 (Darwood). In addition to traveling extensively across Europe and North America, Bowen published over 80 short stories and 10 novels in the fifty years of her publishing career.
Her best known novels were "The Last September" (1929), "The Death of Her Heart" (1938) and "The Heat of the Day" (1948) (Darwood). Her first collection of short stories was
published in 1923 while her last novel, "Eva Trout, or Changing Scenes" was published in 1969 and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 1948, Bowen was made the
Companion of the British Empire and was awarded doctorates from Trinity College, Dublin and Oxford. In 1999, on the 100th anniversary of her birth, a great many of Bowens works
were republished and released as commemorative collections (Darwood). Elizabeth Bowens short story "The Demon Lover" is considered one of her most analyzed and
controversial works in terms of content and implied intention of the writer. Written during the beginning of World War II, the story is about a woman, Mrs. Kathleen Drover, who
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