The Demon Lover
by Elizabeth Bowen

The Demon Lover: Style 1 key example

Key Examples in The Demon Lover

Style
Explanation and Analysis:

The prose in "The Demon Lover" is characteristic of British literary fiction from the 1940s. The story uses rather formal language with an emphasis on exposition. Take, for instance, this description of Mrs. Drover's street and empty house:

In her once familiar street, as in any unused channel, an unfamiliar queerness had silted up; a cat wove itself in and out of railings, but no human eye watched Mrs Drover's return. Shifting some parcels under her arm, she slowly forced round her latchkey in an unwilling lock, then gave the door, which had warped, a push with her knee.