The Narrow Door is a novella by French writer andre gide. The novel describes the hero Jerome's love for his cousin Arisha since childhood. Although Arisha felt the same way about Jerome, she adhered to the puritan self-restraint and buried her feelings deeply in her heart. Finally, she got sick and died unfortunately. In The Narrow Door, Gide pushed the mysticism experience in love to the extreme, telling a pure and passionate love story full of boundless loneliness and infinite bitterness.

The Narrow Door is a novella by French writer andre gide. The novel describes the hero Jerome's love for his cousin Arisha since childhood. Although Arisha felt the same way about Jerome, she adhered to the puritan self-restraint and buried her feelings deeply in her heart. Finally, she got sick and died unfortunately. In The Narrow Door, Gide pushed the mysticism experience in love to the extreme, telling a pure and passionate love story full of boundless loneliness and infinite bitterness.