Clegg keeps repeating that what eventually happened to Miranda is not is fault. Clegg refuses to get a doctor, fearing discovery, and Miranda's condition worsens. Soon, though, Miranda develops a cold which becomes a severe chest infection, probably pneumonia. Yet he begins to force Miranda to pose for nude photographs for him these offer the only sexual gratification he can experience. After a disastrous sexual encounter, Clegg loses all respect for her, revealing the extent of his neurotic mentality in the process. She tries to escape after Clegg extends her term of captivity, and for the first time since Miranda's abduction Clegg must chloroform her to keep her in his grasp.Įventually Miranda tries to last thing the thinks might free her: seducing Clegg. Clegg promises to free Miranda after a month of captivity, but goes back on his promise when Miranda tells him she does not love him. Miranda comes from a higher social class and has had a better education than Clegg she frequently tries to educate him, though at other times she subjects him to her contempt. For the next month, the two engage in a battle of wills, with Miranda frequently attempting to escape and Clegg explaining that all he wants is for her to love him. Clegg drives Miranda to his house after chloroforming her to subdue her. Part 1 of the novel is told from Clegg's perspective, first as he prepares to abduct Miranda and then once he has her in his power. Eventually, after determining her habits and discovering where she lives, he kidnaps her one night as she is walking home in London. Clegg buys a secluded house in the country and readies a small basement room as an inescapable cell he also buys a van with which to follow and snatch Miranda. By this time Miranda is a 20 year-old art student in London. After he wins a lot of money in a sports betting system known as the football pools, he takes the steps necessary to kidnap Miranda, though at the time he tells himself that he is not necessarily preparing to abduct her. Clegg is an amateur entomologist and is especially devoted to collecting butterflies. The Collector tells the story of Frederick Clegg, a man in his mid-20s who grows obsessed with Miranda Grey, a beautiful teenager whom he watches from afar.
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