The Turn of the Screw, Chapter 15 summary
Chapter 15 of 25 · 5 min to read the chapter
In Chapter 15, the governess stays outside church, fears Miles’s demands about his schooling, and returns to the house intending to leave her position. Seeing her ghostly predecessor at the schoolroom table reverses that decision, and she becomes certain that she must stay.
What happens
- Outside church, the governess believes Miles recognizes her fear of discussing his dismissal from school with his uncle.
- Unable to face sitting beside Miles or answering the children’s questions, she considers leaving her position altogether.
- She returns through the park to the nearly empty house and worries about arranging transport.
- A memory of an earlier apparition unsettles her on the stairs, but she continues upstairs to collect her belongings.
- In the schoolroom, she sees her predecessor at her table, protests against her presence, and resolves to stay after the figure disappears.
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The encounter reverses her plan to leave. Although the figure disappears, her conviction that she must remain takes its place.
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What makes the governess abandon her plan to leave?
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