An Analysis on Casualties of Peace and a Pagan Place in Edna O’brien’s Fiction

Exploring Trauma and Hope in Edna O'brien's Novel

Abstract

It is a novel that is genuinely disheartening, from the second I began it I had a terrible inclination about how this would go. There are, I ought to caution future perusers, some genuinely horrendous scenes of aggressive behavior at home.Set in the London of the 1960s, the novel places on Willa, Patsy and Tom. Willa is delicate, a visionary and as yet recuperating from a bombed relationship. She is a guiltless, leaving on a relationship with a wedded Jamaican man Auro. While she aches for him, fantasizing about him when he isn't with her – she appears to be adhered – incapable to push ahead with the following phase of their relationship.