As a lower-class citizen, Hundreds Hall and the Ayres family represent the upper class that he both desires to belong to but also detests. Firstly, there are constant references to his desire for the Ayres’s home: Hundreds Hall. The text suggests Faraday is involved in the hauntings in some way. The unexplained ghostly energy haunts Dr Faraday and acts as the dark double of his unconsciousness. The Little Stranger tells the story of Dr Faraday and the Ayres family in their seemingly haunted house. In her haunting novel, the dark double comes in the form of main character, Dr Faraday.
The figure of the dark double is a common trope in gothic fiction, and Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger is no exception. Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger, p.499. For I’ll turn, and am disappointed- realising that what I am looking at is only a cracked window-pane, and that the face gazing distortedly from it, baffled and longing, is my own.’
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