Abstract
Evil in James's fiction is not so much a problem as it is an inexorable, ever present reality that cripples and destroys; it is present at the basis of every human situation, and it is at least latent in the soul of every man. It is unquestioned and undefined, manifest in its effects, not in its causes. Critics frequently describe James as having a of evil, (rather than an idea of or a concept of evil) ; and the term is accurate, for it suggests that to James evil is obscure and indefinite. In his works the reaction to evil often strikes us as vague and unrelated to specific action or character, or we may feel, as Yvor Winters towards some of the novels, that the sense of evil far exceeds what the presented situation merits.' This sense of evil
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