Cognitive response to Death in Marian Keyes’s Anybody Out There

Abstract

Death is a natural disaster which will take away the life of a person and will not bring them back to their normal regular life. Death will overtake the life from its existence. It is a bitter truth but can be acceptable for the human race. Death will cause a serious depression between the loved ones. In the novel Anybody Out There, the protagonist Anna was deeply in love with her deceased husband. The sudden death causes her depression and, made her believe in superstitious activities. So the protagonist Anna was in hunt of a good telepathy. But she ends up with spending lots of money and time. Finally she happens to contact her husband through her dreams and gets to know the secrets of her deceased husband. In this case, women encounter lots of depression and will search for a abnormal way to console herself from the loss. The researcher applies the cognitive theory to understand the behavior of our protagonist, who lost herself in superstitious beliefs. It is a reflection of her childhood behavior, which reflects in her present situation.