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Exploring Personality Disorders: A Psycho analytical Overview of Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train

Journal: International Journal of English, Literature and Social Science (Vol.6, No. 3)

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Page : 337-342

Keywords : American dream; posttraumatic stress disorder; psychoanalysis; recession.;

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Abstract

Psychoanalysis, one of the modern theories, that are employed in English literature to interpret the hidden meaning of a literary text. It also helps to examine the innate conglomerate of the writer's personality. It also helps to understand the factors that contribute to his experience from birth to the period of writing a book. Paula Hawkins represented the toxic effects of personality disorders in The Girl on the Train through Megan. Megan experienced Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Histrionic Personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder. Thus, Paula Hawkins had expressed it through an ambiguous style of narration by the novel The Girl on the Train.

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