Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Sylvia Plath
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The late 1950's or early 1960's
- Setting: Roxbury, Massachusetts
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Johnny Panic, Miss Taylor, Miss Milleravage, The clinic director
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Psychology or psychologists, Dreams, New England, Obsession, Fear, Hospitals, Horror, Dragons, Lakes
- Locales: Roxbury, MA
The Story
The narrator, a young assistant in a large metropolitan hospital's psychology clinic, obsessively transcribes patients’ dreams, which she memorizes from their hospital records, into a book that she calls her bible of dreams. In her book, Johnny Panic is the god. In order to read more of the patients’ dreams, she hides in the women's room until she thinks that everyone has left the office. (Practical difficulties and fears keep her from sneaking the records home.) When she returns to the office and begins to read the medical records, she is caught by the clinic...
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