Henry James did not include the governess features because he wanted the audience to use their imagination and to put themselves on the governess’s shoes, to live the story as they read. The author is clear on the governess’s role and personality. They believe that when a work is ambiguous either the author is unsure of what he wants to say or he is saying two contradictory things at the same time. Which is a good deal to have given her” Henry James governess, has been criticized by some readers, the governess personal feature is still a mystery? However, Henry James exclaimed that the governess personality is very clear, based on page 14 “Much as I liked my companions this hour was the thing in the day I liked most and I liked it best of all when, as the light faded-or rather, I should say, the day lingered and the last calls of the last birds sounded, in a flushed sky, from the old trees- I could take a turn into the grounds and enjoy, almost with a sense of property that amused and flattered me, the beauty and dignity of the place.” The governess is someone independent, capable of making her own decisions. W HEN in 1934 Edmund Wilson published his brilliant and provocative essay 'The Ambiguity of Henry James,' in which he ques-tions the reliability of Jamess center of revelation in 'The Turn of the Screw,' he provided scholars an intriguing method for approaching much modern fiction. According to one passage on page 126 “It constitutes no little of a character indeed, in such conditions, for a young person, as she says, ‘privately bred’, that she is able to make her particular credible statement o such strange matters.
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