Secondly, one's unconscious desires are not ruled by reason: one has no awareness of them. The governess in this story is put in an untenable situation for one so young. She is asked to run a large country house, manage the help and educate the children without any input or advice from her employer. In time, she begins to see and hear things that may or may not be happening. Are the children playing tricks on her or is she beginning to lose her grip on reality? The question always debated is, are the ghosts in this story real, or are they the figment of a young girl's hysteria.
As the story continues, the readers have many more unsolved questions such as why Miles was dismissed from school, why the Governess could describe Peter Quint exactly though she never meet him, and why the Governess thought that ghosts wanted to catch the two children. For instance, James revealed some hints regarding the reason Miles was dismissed. We know "that he [Miles]'s an injury to the others" (James, pg.34) and Mrs. Grose thought Miles was "no boy for [her]" (James, 35). However, these hints do not help the readers to completely understand why Miles was sent away from his school. Instead, more questions are posed, such as how such a ten-year-old boy could injure other students and why Mrs. Grose thought about Miles that way. The readers cannot easily find the specific and reasonable answers in the story, so they have to guess the answers based on their own perspective. The readers get involved closely to the story and their imaginations grow as the story evolves. This is how the psychological connections between the readers and the story are established. .
The unreliable narrator, the Governess, brings about more questions for the readers. She is defined an unreliable narrator as a narrator whose norms and behavior are not in accordance with the implied author's norms. The Governess was an unreliable narrator because she made a lot of assumptions and conclusions without strong evidences.
