The Grotesque Body in Pat Barkers Tobys Room
Journal: Communications in Humanities Research
Year: 2023

In Pat Barkers 2012 novel Tobys Room, numerous portraits of grotesque bodies are foundfrom the pregnant mother and the deformed fetus, a dead mans shrunken penis on the dissection table, to the disfigured faces of the soldiers who fought in the First World Warthese grotesque images are closely related and logically intertwined in revealing the characters secret mindset and inner struggles, as well as foreshadowing their fate, arousing the readers a mixed feeling of sympathy and great horror. Rel