Elizabeth Bowen`s "Summer Night" is a short story controlled by a sense of place: every place has its own genius and fate. As an Anglo-Irish writer, Bowen is keenly conscious of her identity placed between England and Ireland. As she says, her stories are dominated by a sense of place, not by the faces of her characters. "Summer Night" is set in Robinson`s Bellevue, a neutral zone in World War II. Here the gray zone of Bellevue is a metaphor for the intersection of past and present, frustration and hope, romance and reality of the displaced characters. There is no neutral zone in a war time, safe from the pollution of past memories and noises of war. The dark night of the War intrudes into the recollections of Bowen`s characters and they pass through the crisis in survival in their lack of communications. Their mind is a neutral zone in the place which is torn open by the flashing light of war. That bright light shows us the dark night of split souls stuck in between illusion and crude reality, despair and desire, pollution and purity. In Bowen`s stories is hidden a childlike part of the heart that resurrects the death of the heart. Like Frederich Nietzsche`s idea of illusion that makes life endurable, Bowen`s illusion of art enables life to be kept on. Her characters` double consciousness reflects Bowen`s own ``displaced`` double consciousness between England and Ireland, and artistic illusion and polluted life. If a night is cold and dark, it turns into a bright heat of the day.