But she also embraces and accepts Brydon as he is.Ī television version of the story was produced during 1975 with Fritz Weaver as Spencer Brydon and Salome Jens as Alice Staverton. She tells him that she pities the ghost of his alter ego, who has suffered and lost two fingers from his right hand.
She had come to the house because she sensed he was in danger. It is arguable whether or not Spencer had actually become unconscious or whether he had died and has awoken in an afterlife. Brydon eventually awakens with his head pillowed on Alice Staverton's lap. After a harrowing night of pursuit in the house, Brydon finally confronts the ghost, who advances on him and overpowers him with "a rage of personality before which his own collapsed". Meanwhile Brydon begins to believe that his alter ego-the ghost of the man he might have been-is haunting the "jolly corner", his nickname for the old family house. He discusses this possibility with Alice Staverton, his friend who has always lived in New York. Brydon has begun to realize that he might have been an astute businessman if he hadn't forsaken moneymaking for a more leisurely life. He starts to prowl the house at night to try to meet his American alter ego. He starts to wonder who he would have been if he had stayed in the U.S. Both comment on his "real gift" for business and construction which he also finds "vulgar and sordid". Spencer rekindles a relationship with an old friend, Alice Staverton.
Spencer finds he is good at directing this renovation, despite never having done this work before, suggesting that his innate ability for business was hiding deep within him unused. These properties have been the source of his income since the deaths of his family members. The second, larger structure is now going to be renovated into a big apartment building. He has returned to "look at his 'property'", two buildings, one his boyhood home on "the jolly corner". Spencer Brydon returns to New York City after thirty-three years abroad. He encounters a "sensation more complex than had ever before found itself consistent with sanity".
One of James' most noted ghost stories, "The Jolly Corner" describes the adventures of Spencer Brydon as he prowls the now-empty New York house where he grew up. "The Jolly Corner" is a short story by Henry James published first in the magazine The English Review of December 1908. Short story by Henry James The Jolly Corner
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