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The Eye in the Door concentrates, for the most part, on Rivers's treatment of the fictional character of Prior.

Although Prior's character might not have existed, the facts that he makes Rivers face up to did – that something happened to him on the first floor of his house that caused him to block all visual memory and begin to stammer.

We also learn of Rivers's treatment of officers in the airforce and of his work with Head.

Sassoon too plays a role in the book-Rivers visits him in hospital where he finds him to be a different, if not broken, man, his attempt at " suicide " having failed.

This second novel in the trilogy, both implicitly and directly, addresses the issue of Rivers's possible homosexuality and attraction to Sassoon.

From Rivers's reaction to finding out that Sassoon is in hospital to the song playing in the background (" You Made Me Love You ") and Ruth Head's question to her husband, " do you think he's in love with him?

" we get a strong impression of the author's opinions on Rivers's sexuality.