ABSTRACT
Literally, displacement is a word that refers to one's physical transition from one place to another either voluntarily or involuntarily. Usually, the movement of an individual or a group of individuals from the original place to a periphery, where they come to suffer from psychological illnesses, is made by force. It is in that periphery that they happen to feel that they are displaced, marginalized, deserted, banished, disoriented, alienated, imprisoned, and above all and terminally defeated. The research will focus on the emotional impact that dislocation and disjunction have on the protagonists of Ernest Hemingway's Old Man at the Bridge and Katherine Mansfield's Miss Brill. Feeling Lost and disconnected, both fatalistic protagonists retreat, symbolically putting an end to their life.
KEYWORDS
displacement, retreat, illusion, war, colonialism