Turn Of The Screw Mystery

In the beginning of “The Turn of The Screw” by Henry James, Griffin is telling ghost stories around the fire place at a Christmas Eve event. Griffin establishes the eerie setting in the first few pages followed by a man named Douglas. He starts telling a story about two young kids which immediately sets the creepy tone for the rest of the story.
In the remainder of the story, we meet a variety of characters. The narrator explains that the there was a young woman going for an interview for a governess position. She meets up with a gentleman and gets convinced to take the job at his house in Bly.
The new governess goes to the house in Bly where she is greeted by a girl named flora and the house keeper Mr.Grose. Flora is eight years of age.

She is talented in music and is considered a beautiful little girl according to the governess. The house keeper, Mr. Grose is an extremely kind lady that has been working for the family for years now. Mr. Grose is seen as lower class and is there to aid the governess. Mr. Grose also loves the children very much and always looks out for them as if they were her own.
Flora has a 10 year old brother named Miles.

The night before he arrived at the house, the governess received a letter from the school’s headmaster saying that Miles has been expelled from school. The reader never really finds out why he was expelled from school, making it one of the big mysteries of the story.
Miles was still at school at the time the governess arrived at the house and she will only meet him in the next couple of days. When he arrives she is excited to meet him. The governess seems a bit obsessive with the kids that she had just met. She says that Miles is just as beautiful as his little sister

Flora.
Later on in the book the governess is freighted by a man standing at the window. Mrs. Grose told her that is was Peter Quint. Peter had red hair and scary eyes. The creepy part is that the man she saw was the uncles former valet driver who had already passed away.
Further in the chapter the governess takes Flora to the lake. The governess sees someone appear on the other side of the lake. The governess was suspicious that Flora had also seen the lady appear; however Flora doesn’t say anything. The governess believes that the lady she saw was the former governess who died at the house named Miss Jessel.
Mr.Grose mentions that Miss Jessel and Peter Quint once had sexual relations.

The governess starts acting weird and believes that the kids are being possessed by the ghosts of the deceased. She thinks that Miles’s expulsion had something to do with by Peter Quint’s ghost. She also believes that only Miles and Flora can see the ghosts. She then tells the house keeper who suggests that she call the uncle about it. It was rather strange that she freaked out about contacting the uncle.
While they were going to church on one Sunday she loses her mind when Miles asks if his uncle can come to visit. From here on the governess is completely unstable and starts to see the ghosts of the deceased again. She sits down with Miles that same night and talks to him about going to school again. She tries to ask him why he got expelled when suddenly the candle goes out. Miles shout out “he did it.”
The governess finally decides to write a letter to the uncle. She sits down with Miles because he wanted to play the piano for her. While Miles is busy playing the governess gets distracted and can’t find Flora. They find that the boat was missing and the governess is convinced that Miss Jessel was responsible for this wrong doing. They finally find Flora and the house keeper takes the little girl back in the

house.
Flora is very sick the next day so Mr. Grose takes her to the uncle while the governess stays with Miles at the Bly. When Miles gets home that evening they sit down and eat dinner. The governess sees Quint appear at the window and goes crazy. She yells at Miles and asks if he had taken the letter. She then screams at him asking why he got expelled at school in which he replies, that he “said things” and he friends spread rumors about it causing him to be expelled. The governess screams in fear when she sees Quint by the window and tries to get Miles to see it too. Unfortunately she realizes that Miles’s heart stopped beating and he dies on the floor.