The Beast In The Jungle: The Beast Of James

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plainly of Marcher's and Bartram's relationship?
The author could tell us exactly why John Marcher does not marry May
Bartram. The narrator tells us that Marcher's situation "was not a
condition he could invite a woman to share" and "that a man of feeling
didn't cause himself to be accompanied by a lady on a tiger hunt" (p. 417).
This is nonsense. Marcher won't marry May because he doesn't want to
inconvenience her with his condition or endanger her life on a tiger hunt?
First of all, he inconveniences her right up to the day of her death with
his condition, and as for the metaphorical tiger hunt, what exactly does
that refer to? What is it here that James will not speak of in plain
language? Simply what is the meaning of this; what is the author's intent?
One might speculate that this story is somewhat autobiographical in
that James himself never married and often carried on close personal
relationships with a very select few. The various biographers of his life
have brought ...

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ways the
criticism I have found is rather uniform, but on some points it differs
considerably. I shall start with the common parts of the criticism. Because
"The Beast in the Jungle" is a rather short work, the majority of these
critics tend to summarize the entire story instead of concentrating on one
or two significant aspects. I have found they are in general agreement that
May Bartram is the figurative "Beast." Allen Tate says "As May Bartram
stands before [Marcher], 'all soft,' it is marcher's Beast which has leaped
at him from his jungle" (Tate p. 77). Walter Wright comments "[Marcher]
sees the beast in not one but two symbolic images. Thinking again of the
last parting, he sees ...

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