The Interior Castle (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean Stafford
- First Published: 1947
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1940's
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: Pansy Vanneman, Dr. Nicholas, Miss Kennedy
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Escapes, 1940’s, Pain, Surgery or surgeons, Accidents, Fantasy, Hospitals, Nose, Brain
- Locales: United States
The Story
Pansy Vanneman, twenty-five years old, is in the hospital recovering from severe injuries that she received when a taxi in which she was riding had an accident that killed the driver. It is now six weeks after the accident, and Pansy has recovered enough for her surgeon to operate on her smashed nose. She has spent the previous six weeks in a kind of waking trance. She has had no visitors, because she only recently moved to the city and apparently has not formed connections there. Her behavior is so passive as to cause comment among the nurses and resentment at her...
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