EXCERPT FROM “THE TRIP OF LE HORLA” Part B: Which detail about the narrator helps develop the theme from Part A

The Trip of Le Horla or The Horla is a short story by Guy de Maupassant.

The main theme in this epic and intriguing story is the supernatural and how far it is an aspect of the world we live in.

The narrator maintains this tension between what is and is not real or reliable—one of the story's key themes—by ensuring that his protagonist is erudite and well to do, clearly a man of means and who has friends in respectable professions.

The string of "the Invisible," or things which exist on the planet past our levelheaded seeing, first shows up in the second of the narrator's journal passages, where he considers the abnormality of our reality being so immense thus brimming with things we don't yet think about. The narrator comes back to this idea over and again all through the story, as we see him getting influenced increasingly more towards the priest's proposal, at Mont St Michel, that there is for sure much we don't comprehend known to man, and this doesn't mean it is all fiction and dream.  

As the story advances, the narrator's degree of rationality is conflicting, albeit continually drifting towards the crazy. The interval with the trance inducer shows us the man as he should once have been, hesitant to accept that entrancing can be genuine and considering the numerous and shifted manners by which such scams may be pulled off. At the point when the hypnotherapist substantiates himself to the storyteller, he is enormously disturbed by this, as it appears to "demonstrate" what the priest let him know: that things are not restricted to the "regular" as we get it. This is incredibly stressing to the storyteller, since it appears to give him free rein to yield to his evening doubts of being spooky by some concealed power. On the off chance that trance induction may be genuine, for what reason may not the Horla be genuine, as well?