Study Guide

The Turn of the Screw Characters

By Henry James

The Governess is the only character we can really sink our teeth into in this story—in...

Here's the thing: for a character as central as Miles is, we actually know very little about...

Flora is two years younger than her brother—she's eight—and is just as adorable; the...

Peter Quint is just all kinds of trouble. First of all, he’s an evil spirit who’s...

Even though she's definitely one of the two villains of this story (from a conventional point of...

Mrs. Grose is something of a blank page—a kindly, loving blank page, but a blank one...

As you can see, the general theme here is that we don't really know anything at all about any of...