Misery

1 Pages 235 Words

In the novel, Misery, Stephen King embodies the state of possession by an evil being who happens to be the elaborated and horrifically psychotic woman, Annie Wilkes. In this story, Annie represents a mother figure, a goddess and a loyal reader of the romance novelist, Paul Sheldon. In reality, however, Annie merely represents someone who has troubles deciphering between reality and fiction. This odd obsession with not only Paul, but with the fictional character Misery, shows the mental unstableness of her.They happen to meet only by chance. Paul gets in an accident and she happens to take him back to her cabin and nurse him back to health. Annie acts like a proud mother of two; one child is about the powerful hold fiction can achieve over the reader, as personified in Annie Wilkes. Annie comes to embody a mother, goddess like figure and the audience image in the novel. At whatever the price, Annie's creative force will live on. Her death will never be a reality, any more than Misery Chastain's death is a reality. She would never be able to understand that her mind doesn't work like ours. She is unable to decipher the differences and similarities of an imaginary tale and real life. Clearly, Annie has a psychotic personality with slight traits of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. She is definitely one I would stay far away from....