The Last September

In the novel, The Last September, Elizabeth Bowen describes specific events and displays extreme emotions that many people would think could only be expressed from personal experience. Elizabeth would put characteristics of her childhood and teenager years into the life of Lois, one of the main characters in the book. Her life was full of trials and tribulations and she shared that throughout her novel. I believe that Elizabeth Bowen wrote this novel from her …

…symbolic structure of the house, whose past associations were tinged by guilt and whose present was without useful function. (Kenny 37) Elizabeth Bowen was an excellent author to put herself in the position of heartache to express emotions in her novel. In conclusion, Elizabeth Bowen has reflected her life on her characters for the reader to hear her life story. She has been through many trials and has written many great novels because of those trials.