A Phenomenological Approach in Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Abstract

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman revolves around an unnamed protagonist who attends a funeral while visiting his birthplace and recalls happenings that started forty years previously. The novel delves into themes such as the quest for identity, the gap between childhood and adulthood, and memory and perception. This research aims to phenomenologically study the effects of subjective experience and its effects on perceptions and memories in Neil Gaiman’s novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane.