The Beast in the Jungle (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry James
- First Published: 1903
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The late nineteenth century
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: John Marcher, May Bartram
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Emotions, Obsession, Death or dying, Fate or fatalism
- Locales: England
The Story
At a party in one of the stately homes of England, John Marcher meets May Bartram, and they realize that they had met years before in Italy. She recalls a strange confession he made on that occasion—that he had always felt the deepest thing within him was a sense of being reserved for a unique fate, “something rare and strange, possibly prodigious and terrible,” that eventually would happen to him and perhaps overwhelm him. Whatever the fate is, it is not anything he is to do or accomplish; his role is to wait, and he asks if she will wait and watch with him....
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