Summary Of The Goophered Grapevine By Chesnutt

The Goophered Grapevine is written by the author Charles W. Chesnutt. This whole story is about a Yankee that wants to buy a Grape vineyard but a southern that used to work on the vineyard tells him not to buy the vineyard for multiple reasons. The story took place in a time period called the Reconstruction. There are many reasons why this short story could be said that the southern manipulates the story to make sure that the Yankee does not buy the vineyard. Many may say that Uncle Julius is just telling the history of the vineyard and has no intent. The southern Uncle Julius tells all these stories about the vineyard how the vineyard is haunted. The Three things that manipulated the Yankee from buying the vineyard was Aun’ Peggy, the story

This supports that uncle Julius manipulated the Yankee because he is trying to scare off the Yankee and his wife from buying the vineyard by telling them that the vineyard is haunted. Nobody in their right mind would want to buy a haunted vineyard so Uncle Julius tries to manipulate them by telling them that the vineyard is haunted in hopes they will not buy the

As a reader we do not find that out until the very end of the short story. He tells the Yankee that all of his stories are true and that he can go show them the grave of Henry to prove that he is telling the truth. This is very manipulating in many ways on Uncle Julius part. He says “ I wouldn’ ‘vise yer to buy dus yer ole vimya’d, ‘caze de opher’s on it yet, en dey ain’ no tellin’ w’en it’s gwine ter crap out.”(Chesnutt) This proves that he is trying to scare them off by saying there could still be some of the grape vines that are curse still on the vineyard that day. After the Yankee bought the vineyard he found out that uncle Julius had a cabin on the