Eye of the Storm
by J
About This Novel
"The Eye of the Storm" is the representative novel of Patrick White, Australia's first Nobel Prize winner for literature, establishing his status as a literary giant. The novel uses Mrs. Hunter's activities from her critical life to her burial as the story frame. Through her inner monologue and free association, the novel narrates her life of debauchery and misfortune. In Sydney, in a decaying mansion, Elizabeth Hunter, who is over eighty years old, resists the approach of death. In front of the hospital bed, a pair of children driven by profit, three nurses with different personalities, a clown-like housekeeper, and an upright but cowardly lawyer all staged a tragicomedy of intrigue, love and hate in this hypocritical and indifferent family. Elizabeth, who was once beautiful and dissolute, greedily grabbed everything and harmed her family and friends; but the approach of death allowed her to find the perfect state of goodness that she had never found throughout her life while half asleep. Just like what Elizabeth experienced on the island many years ago, the painful storm will cleanse away the emptiness and absurdity of life, bringing a pure and quiet eye of the storm.
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