tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post5273219588412155186..comments2024-03-29T03:04:00.853-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: jokes perpetrated in higher spirits than ever - the dreadful dreadfulness of The Turn of the ScrewAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-42225712741950755432016-10-31T21:37:22.730-05:002016-10-31T21:37:22.730-05:00“Oh, handsome - very, very,” I insisted; “wonderfu...“Oh, handsome - very, very,” I insisted; “wonderfully handsome. But infamous.” (Ch. 7)Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-58336548765685764802016-10-31T21:18:21.395-05:002016-10-31T21:18:21.395-05:00But that would be too infamous altogether......But that would be too infamous altogether......sunt_lacrimae_rerumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05659053841051896981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-13444117789126377372016-10-31T11:32:49.293-05:002016-10-31T11:32:49.293-05:00Yessss. A Jamesian hostess, forging the manuscrip...Yessss. A Jamesian hostess, forging the manuscript. "'Oh, how delicious!' cried one of the women." I agree with her.<br /><br />The bit where the narrator says the story will tell who the governess is in love with, and Douglas says "No it won't!" then becomes even funnier.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-84977274409476136982016-10-31T11:18:11.294-05:002016-10-31T11:18:11.294-05:00This is pretty good. Usually when I read this one,...This is pretty good. Usually when I read this one, I feel the same way, that it's James narrating the framing story. It never occurred to me that he was also the writer of the ghost story itself. Some strong (for James) pointers to that solution.<br /><br />The last time I read <i>Screw</i>, I thought that maybe the narrator of the frame was actually the hostess of the dinner. It reads okay that way, except that the narrator refers to men by their last names only, which I'm not sure a moneyed English woman in the late 19th century would do. Though even if the narrator of the frame is a woman, the host of the party, she and Douglas could still be in cahoots. The "ghost" story is a coded message--a confession--that Douglas is the real father of her two children, and when the housekeeper discovers the truth, she's dismissed as unreliable...scott g.f.baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726743149139510832noreply@blogger.com