Turn of the Screw by: Henry James After reading “The Turn of the Screw”, by Henry James, I was left with many unanswered questions. The two main questions are, are the ghosts in the story real, or are they just figments of the narrator’s imagination? When I read though the essays of criticism, I took a stand on one particular argument. I took a stand that supports the argument that the ghosts are real. …showed first 75 words of 1121 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1121 total…governess and Mrs. Grose gets her way and escapes with Flora. Having “girded her loins to meet me once more,” the vindictive housekeeper really turns the screw on the governess. To my knowledge I have to say that Henry James intended for the ghosts to appear and they weren’t just figments of the narrator’s imagination. There were too many occurrences of ghosts in this story to make me feel differently towards this argument.