Politics of Memory in Susan Fletcher'sEve Green

Abstract

The present dissertation aspires to undertake the study of Susan Fletcher's Eve Green relying on trauma theory. The novel deals with necessary expiations, excavation of years of accumulative remorse that the characters cultivate within themselves. The eponymous heroin of Fletcher's debut, Eve, in the novel Eve Green, soon to give birth to her first child, explores her guilt psychology for reckless action of telling lie, haunting image of rootlessness, and her repressed desire to identify herself with her father. In this text memory has been used to resemble the traumatic past experience of the characters. Fletcher's characters are filled with the passionate desire to wake up out of trauma and guilt. They are also filled with the accumulated pain of loss and loneliness which is making them traumatized. Mrs. Hughes lost her only daughter, Rosie, Mrs. Maddox lost her husband at the day of their marriage anniversary, Mr. Phipps and Billy are traumatized by their lost love. Therefore every characters are haunted by the sense of loneliness.