The use of Landscape in "The Double Hook"

thereby justifying her nature as being mythical. According to Flahiff (123) the geographical setting of the novel “The Double Hook ” suggests a highly abstract quality which allows the characters to be at the right place and at the right time. It occurs in a closed community system where escaping is almost impossible. James comes close to leaving his cherished neighborhood but returns. There is so much interaction in the community that things almost become confined. The characters know each other very well with some being less friendly than others (Lennox 48). The entire community as remote as it is connected by meandering roads. Open movement of persons is evident judging from the perpetually open doors in the novel. There is an element of incest in the relationship and interaction of characters in the fiction. Angel shifts from Felix to Theophil and returns to Felix. Lenchen has intercourse with James and decides to name her baby after Felix who she slept with the previous night. Lac...