An unrequited love in The Turn of the Screw by Henry James In "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James, the main character, the housekeeper, is so disappointed and alone in the fact that she will do whatever it takes to reduce these terrifying feelings and not feel them. He decides that the way to do this is perhaps to find love and instead he seems to have found a strange infatuation with his employer. But, unfortunately, because he lives in a country house in Essex, it is not possible to define this desire. When the housekeeper realizes this, she seemingly replaces her unreciprocated feelings in the form of ghostly spirits. Maybe it's his way of "going out". Without fully realizing it, the housekeeper has chosen to be an unreliable narrator. Seeing the ghostly spirits that appear in this invisible relationship allows her to feel as if she herself is part of an invisible relationship. But in reality there is no relationship because the employer seems to continue to ignore her. When the housekeeper grows tired of these ghosts, she turns to other characters to achieve her "goals". It seems that the housekeeper begins to see ghosts at the same time as she longs to fall in love. The young governess is immediately attracted to the "handsome, bold, and likeable" (p. 7) bachelor uncle of the orphaned children by whom she is employed. He also seems to have an overwhelming obsession with how beautiful a person is. This overwhelming feeling was the original incentive for her to take the housekeeper's job. At the beginning of the novel the housekeeper gives the sense that she may have been a little desperate as she knew next to nothing about coming to Essex and jumped at the chance. His desire for... middle of the card... becomes haunted and he begins to see his ghost. Finally, at the end of the novel, she begins to look to Miles for a sense of belonging. It may even seem like he wants to find love so badly that he chokes him to death and kills him. He might as well have died because she scared him half to death. In the last scenes, the governess seems to scare the boy so much, that he starts sweating and breathing heavily and she even starts shaking him. She wants love so badly that she believes Miles is Peter Quint. At the end of the novel the housekeeper achieves a "victory" and is finally able to control and manage everything she previously wanted to know. The housekeeper and her unreliable narrator pose too many questions to answer, but all signs point to her infatuation with Bly being so strong, she needs to feel a sense of belonging...