The Governess In The Turn of the Screw by Henry James is Driven to Paranoia and Insanity by her Fear of the Position. The plausibility of the governess' story in A Turn of the Screw by Henry James really revolves around whether or not the reader believes that ghosts could exist. At first, I believed in the credibility of the governess because of all the strange events that surrounded her arrival at the estate. The …showed first 75 words of 641 total…

…showed last 75 words of 641 total…dismissed from school for using bad language, that solves the mystery of Flora's behavior in the last scene, she was using the bad language taught by Miles, her brother, and not by Quint and Jessel. But the governess cannot accept that the ghosts didn't influence the children. She will not be proven wrong. She shrieks, she grabs the boy, and she tries to make him see the ghost. His death is from fear, and exasperation.