Talk:Haunted (novel)
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Haunted is actually a novel, in the form of a series of stories told by the characters in the frame-tale; not exactly an anthology. (My copy even says "Haunted / A Novel" on the front cover, unlike the cover image on the main page.)
- Updated to reflect that. I don't know if I described it very clearly, though all of the actual information is correct. Hopefully if it's confusing someone familliar with the novel can edit what I wrote.
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[edit] 19 characters?
Aren't there technically 20 characters -- the nineteen at the retreat plus the first-person narrator who never reveals his or her identity?
- The narrator is a collective representation of all of the characters (notice it refers to itself as "we", not I). It is not a seperate person, or that person would have been mentioned. -- LGagnon 02:33, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
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- Understood. And incidentally, thanks for the clarification.
[edit] Character Identification
1) Isn't Director Denial actually Cora Reynolds? I was under the impression that she was, given the parole bracelet she wears, and the fact that she's described as mousey, not the red-headed bombshell who was the commander.
- I was under that impression too, but isn't it Countess Foresight who wore the parole bracelet? I may be wrong, it's been a while since I read the novel.
2) Also, Jensen is NOT the Reverend Godless. While the short story he tells centers on that character, it also mentions that the Reverend is actually the guy who loaded the explosives on the plane: Rev. Godless is the mastermind and the only survivor of the anti-religion activists. It's also fairly explicit that Jensen died.
[edit] Was Countess Forsight really psychic?
The way I interpretted it, the fact that the foetus was really a doll indicated that her visions were hallucinations and that she truly was suffering from psychosis.
[edit] Miss Sneezy
The short stories are stories by the characters, they're not told from an omniscient point of view. So they're not necessarily all true. If Miss Sneezy's account of her life was accurate, then everyone she met would've died from the Keegan virus long before they had to deal with starvation, etc. Her tale of isolation and meeting the one man she's capable of loving tells us a lot about her state of mind, but very little about her state of health. (Unless she was cured prior to her escape, which would make her daring underwater escape pointless.) --VAcharon 23:15, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
