Which lines in this excerpt from Bram Stoker's Dracula suggest that Jonathan Harker is in a liminal state, which was a common Gothic convention? Dracula by Bram Stoker (excerpt) ?

(I suppose I must have fallen asleep; I hope so, but I fear, for all that followed was startlingly real I suppose I must have fallen asleep; I hope so, but I fear, for all that followed was startlingly real) - so real that now, sitting here in the broad, full sunlight of the morning, (I cannot in the least believe that it was all sleep.) I was not alone. (The room was the same, unchanged in any way since I came into it); I could see along the floor, in the brilliant moonlight, my own footsteps marked where I had disturbed the long accumulation of dust.) In the moonlight opposite me were three young women, ladies by their dress and manner.) I thought at the time that I must be dreaming when I saw them, for, (though the moonlight was behind them, they threw no shadow on the floor.)

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Santiago Bryant

8 September, 01:56

Which lines in this excerpt from Bram Stoker's Dracula suggest that Jonathan Harker is in a liminal state, which was a common Gothic convention? Dracula by Bram Stoker (excerpt) ?

(I suppose I must have fallen asleep; I hope so, but I fear, for all that followed was startlingly real I suppose I must have fallen asleep; I hope so, but I fear, for all that followed was startlingly real) - so real that now, sitting here in the broad, full sunlight of the morning, (I cannot in the least believe that it was all sleep.) I was not alone. (The room was the same, unchanged in any way since I came into it); I could see along the floor, in the brilliant moonlight, my own footsteps marked where I had disturbed the long accumulation of dust.) In the moonlight opposite me were three young women, ladies by their dress and manner.) I thought at the time that I must be dreaming when I saw them, for, (though the moonlight was behind them, they threw no shadow on the floor.)

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Cynthia Benton · Answer 1

I believe it is "I suppose I must have fallen asleep; I hope so, but I fear, for all that followed was startlingly real) - so real that now, sitting here in the broad, full sunlight of the morning, (I cannot in the least believe that it was all sleep.)"