The Turn of the Screw by Henry James is a ghost story, but then we come to see that it might not be that at all. Henry is an author who enjoys toying with his reader’s mind by giving them a narrator who isn’t so reliable. He presents the young governess, in this story, as trustworthy and then contradicts what he says in the beginning. In the short story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge it has the same plot as the Turn of the Screw, where in this case, Ambrose Bierce, the author, makes it seem like…
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