He is, however, much more influenced by Freudian theory. Coupled with Wilson's already established fame as a literary critic, the 1934 essay became very popular, officially opening criticism towards the governess's mental state in a way that Goddard's article , officially released in 1957, did not. Wilson disagrees with Goddard's explanation of Mrs. Grose's identification of Peter Quint as the ghost, stating that it is possible that her employer and Quint look alike, allowing the housekeeper to give a accurate description based on what her employer looks like and who she thinks the ghost was. the ghost was the originator. Mrs. Grose is also “illiterate” and “a simple soul” compared to the governess, whom she greatly respects (Wilson 386). He also thinks Miles was scared to death in the last scene. Wilson spends most of his essay analyzing the book with more psychoanalytic connections. He suggests that the governess is hallucinating these figures due to her "inability to understand and accept her own sexuality" (Parkinson). When compared to other Henry James books and his biography, Wilson highlights a pattern of ambiguity and lack of sexuality, which he believes leads back to James' confusion about his own sexuality and ambiguity of his success when he began to write. Wilson also connects the governess's childhood to James's childhood, where "he had traveled so much from a young age that he never had real roots anywhere", explaining that his wish to be grounded and important to someone for an extended period of time parallels the governess's wish to be someone's hero (Wilson 401). Wilson's connections are based heavily on a mixture of Freud's theories that childhood has a significant impact on the subconscious and a biographical interpretation that sees James' past as an influence on the new one. At this point in history,