Give a character analysis on The House In Paris

Character Analysis

The novel, The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen contains the discovery and a better understanding of one’s own identity through life experiences, relationships, time and many other elements incorporated in our own environment. The story is presented through different viewpoints. Yet, one viewpoint is through the innocent insight of a child’s eye in relationship towards its surroundings. The child is in search of his unknown parents, and the parents are in search of their unknown child. With relevance to the plot and different points of view, the reader is able to get a sense of Leopold’s character.
Thus within the first part of the novel, “The Present”, as Leopold seems to be attempting to define, or assert, his own identity he is brought to this Anglo-French house in Paris. He is portrayed, in the beginning, as a seemingly arrogant and egotistical person acting like a prince who has an “impersonal air of a royal child.” However, it...