... sneaking around at night contribute to her idea that the estate at Bly is haunted? Edmund Wilson makes a convincing argument regarding the Freudian theory when he writes in "The Ambiguity of Henry James", "Observe, also, from the Freudian point of view, the significance of the governess's interest in the little girl's pieces of wood and of the fact ... ...

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... with the deal between the governess and the children about the ghosts. At the very end of the story, Miles admits that there is the ghost of Peter Quint. The ambiguity of the author's writing leads me to the question that is this story simply about the ghosts, or is the governess psychologically disturbed? I strongly believe that she sees the ghosts ... ...

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