come closer to Mrs.Fielding in order to find out just what Peter was trying to say without actually saying it. Jenningstried to inform Mrs. Fielding of the possibilities of what had happened to her husband, but shedismissed them. “Sergeant I’m in a vacuum. One hour I expect to see him walk through thedoor, the next...” (Fowles 220). She thought that it was a dream and that she would wake up,however, Jennings was her wake up call. He was not a part of her dream; she was not sleeping,but rather wide awake in an unending nightmare. Jennings also became attached to Isobel whowas Peter’s girlfriend because she knew things that both Peter and Mrs. Fielding were withholdingfrom him.In the end, things turn strange. The case is solved in an interesting way; Isobel cracks thecase. She shed light on the family and their life, but she also shed light on why the disappearancewas so important. “The one thing people never forget is the unsolved. Nothing lasts like amystery,” (Fowles 242). Isobel told Jennings everything about how Fielding liked to hunt andhike and how it was easy for him to escape because he knew his way around without being seen. She decided that he staged his own disappearance and his death and that it would remain unsolvedbecause the Fieldings would not tell and friends and colleagues had no clue as to what was goingon. She knew all of the information because of that one dinner that she had with Fielding. Shefigured out what was going to happen. Once he got the story straight, he no longer needed thehelp of the Fielding’s. He went on to collecting evidence, Isobel his animus, his female shadow,cracked the case for him, and now it was his job to get to the bottom of it.In conclusion, I have used what I have deemed interesting and important to show what Ibelieve was the key point to the story. In my opinion the key to the story was Isobel because if itwere not for her the Field...
