Abstract
This paper attempts to delineate how Anita Brookner's "freeze-frame" narrative in Hotel du Lac visualizes the internalized fears, desires and responses of female characters who are experiencing a lonely life. As a modern writer, Brookner adopts the objective and visual sight rather than subjective narrative, for her realism is not to decorate but to transmit the quotidian things in order to externalize her characters' internal self without coloring them with romantic illusions. By recording the ordinary experiences and representing the material world she succeeds to depict how her female protagonist, Edith, undergoes the process of attaining self-awareness to confront her existential loneliness rather than escaping from it. This calculated method is likely to help the reader to experience the fluid and instable reality through his/her eyes rather than the mind and also contributes to the narrator's effort to represent the unrepresented world of women which is marred by a patriarchal society.
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