Initially, I found Renner’s perspective on Turn of the Screw as really intriguing. In fact, I love to get into the psychoanalytic. But after a while, he lost me in his talk of sexual hysteria. I find his thought process well thought out and unique but I personally don’t find my perspective going entirely down that particular path.

As for Shelia Teahan’s article, I found a lot of her points expounded on the points I had begun to make in class of Monday. I’m definitely inspired to go back and analyze the stories Preface separately and consider how it affected the perspective I took while reading the text, because it is indeed a part of the story and is as much of a baised perspective as the governess’ is. I agree that the governess’ understanding of her role played a large part in how she acted towards the children. & Teahan’s point about the blurred line between a governess and a mother makes me wonder how much more our governess struggled given that the children had no mother. I feel as though this further supports my belief that both the external and internal conditions caused the governess to spiral deeper and deeper into her insanity.