The man is much older and described as being unattainable, but that did not stop the narrator from climbing into trees and fantasizing about his hands as they grip his steering wheel with strength (1). Here, the adult narrator tells her childhood memories using the past tense along with figurative language about a childhood crush and what she used to do to get near him. The novel begins with a chapter titled “Voyage in the Dark.” It focuses on a young girl who claims to be a little girl at the cusp of individuation (1). Readers do, however, get a sense of time in “The Deepest Sea,” when Bennett passively announces it is 2013 at some point in the narrator’s adult life. Bennett makes a conscious effort to ignore any and all proper nouns in this novel, meaning she does not name any other character or location either. This book is truly a collection of the narrator’s thoughts as she bounces back and forth between various times of her life and readers are never provided with her age in any of them. Each chapter maintains unity through the narrator’s voice while all are vastly different in chronology and tone. Pond, a collection of short stories written by Claire-Louise Bennett, contains 20 chapters that center around an unnamed female narrator as she spends time in her country cottage and recalls her past experiences.
The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Bennett, Claire-Louise.
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