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Most significant, perhaps, are the events that are narrated by Lucy herself, including her description of her double whom we almost immediately witness as the object of the male narrator’s gaze. When Lucy tells her story, however, she describes seeing her dual images reflected in the
mirror, highlighting the difference between Lucy outside the mirror and the demonic ‘Lucy’ reflected back at her:
In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked, fearful self, so like me that my soul seemed to quiver within me, as though not knowing to which similitude of body it belonged… I suddenly swooned away… even while I lay [in my sickbed] my double was seen by all, flitting about the house and gardens, always about some mischievous or detestable work.
Thus the fragmented narrative, its various components narrated by different voices, suggests perhaps the loss of authority of the
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