Abstract: This research deals with a story from the collection of short stories by the French writer Théophile Gautier from the nineteenth century. It is a story entitled The Dead Lover and it belongs to fantasy. The story takes us through a space that combines reality and imagination, as it begins in a monastery in which a young man is ordained a priest. During the ordination ceremony, his eyes fall on Ghada Hasna, who has never known women except his mother, which causes a revolution in his life, and his self is fragmented between God and Satan, a time between the sacred and desires. Events develop when the woman dies and the young priest comes to her house. After her death, the priest lives two lives: a day in the monastery where he worships and celibates, and a night in the arms of his lover, who emerges from her grave to suck his blood, which restores her life. The young priest does not emerge from this schizophrenic state except thanks to Father Serapion, who brings him closer to God and distances him from Satan. We then conducted a social critical study of the story in a verse in which the effect of place on human behavior through the hero's movement from one space to another.