The Turn of the Screw | Techniques
Closer in length to a novella than to a novel, The Turn of the Screw is made up of a brief prologue and twenty-four short chapters. The prologue constitutes what is known as a "frame" in that it explains the circumstances in which the story is told and offers a few tantalizing preliminary remarks. Douglas's assertion that the manuscript he is about to read is the most horrible ghost story he has ever known, his revelation that the governess was in love with the master and his enigmatic remark that "the story won't tell . . . not in any vulgar way" spark the readers' curiosity and...
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