Narrator

The novel’s primary first person narrator remains unnamed throughout the novel. She is “the author of the notebooks” (169). Her first person narrative voice thus dictates and propels the five notebook sections of Case Study. At the start of the novel, “a Mr. Martin Grey of Clacton-on-Sea,” writes to GMB regarding the notebooks (1). He alleges that they were “written by his cousin” and thought they “might form the basis of an interesting book” (1). In the final section of the novel, “Postscript to the Second Edition,” both GMB and the reader discover that the narrator is in fact the Martin Grey correspondent. However, Grey is a woman and has donned the Grey identity in order to win GMB’s attention and help.

The narrator first starts writing the notebooks after she begins her investigation into Dr. Collins Braithwaite. Convinced that the psychotherapist’s controversial theories and methods are responsible...