W.W. Jacobs takes a classic three wish story and manipulates it in just the right way, to make it a very creepy but climatic tale. The author creates a story of consequences, for disordering fate. Filled with mysterious characters, an ambiguous plot and exotic magic is what makes this tale appealing to all. In writing the short story, Jacobs uses a variety of themes, characterization, and imagery.
The main theme throughout this story is that faith should not be tampered with, that those who obstruct it will suffer consequences of any summit. This theme is explicitly stated in the text when the Sergeant- Major said, “... He wanted to show that fate ruled people's lives, and that those who interfered with it did so at their sorrow.” Unfortunately for Mr. White he excuses this statement and maintained just as engaged in the monkey's paw as ever. Jacobs links his story to another theme, the supernatural, he gives the Monkey’s Paw the ability to grant wishes, making it an exotic and mystical figure. This may also be debated, on one hand, it is supernatural causes
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and Mrs. White their similarities and their differences quickly became very intriguing. To start, towards the end of the book after the death of their son Mrs. White pressures her husband into wishing him back, but Mr. White understands the consequences that such a wish may create. His wife whom did not comprehend the severity of this problem and simply wanted her son back, forced her husband to make the wish. In doing so the husband spent his third and last wish, wishing the son away again. “Wish!” repeated his Wife. He raised his hand. “I wish my son alive again.” The two express grief in different ways, the women is mad, mad at everything, herself, her husband, the monkey’s paw. While her husband, is upset for trusting an object with such features, he was warned against but became blind from the greatness of it all. He had to learn for himself the dangers of trusting such an unreliable