7/7/2023 0 Comments Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi![]() ![]() Fox is a professional writer of fiction, not a fearsome castle dweller, and Mary is merely one of his characters. Fox does not shrink away when Mary accuses him of murder in the opening chapter. Fox’s horrible intentions and triumphs over him through the power of her narration. ![]() ![]() Fox by recounting in the form of a dream the murder she watched him commit, using such detail that the menacing Mr. Fox murders and dismembers all of his wives until his soon-to-be wife Lady Mary visits his castle, discovers his chamber of bodies, and manages to avoid her fate. Fox, Helen Oyeyemi’s fourth novel, takes its name from the English version of the Bluebeard fairytale - in which a Mr. ![]()
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