She Came to Stay is a novel written by French author Simone de Beauvoir first published in 1943. It is one of the novels that make you deeply feel the distortion of modernist and traditionalist approaches and make you feel almost uneasy while reading. The novel describes the subtle destruction of a couple’s relationship brought about by a young girl’s prolonged stay in their home; it also treats the difficult problem of the relationship of a conscience to “the other,” each individual conscience being fundamentally a predator to another. The novel explores themes of freedom, dependence, sexuality, and the other.