An Abduction

Literary fiction is intimately concerned with the nature of the self, the nature of human experience. It is interested as much with the subject-matter or content of particular events or experiences, as with the self who undergoes such experiences. 

Jane, as we have seen, has certainly been made aware of something. She has experienced, recognised, been brought face-to-face with her sexual desire and its betrayal. But could we say that she has had ‘an experience’? What could we say she knows?