Summary of “A Haunted House”

“Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting”.

Along with her husband, the narrator experiences the indescribable feeling of a home, whose alive with memories. She does nothing but try to keep the suspense regarding the openings and closings of doors and windows that she and her husband witnesses. Even if they know that there’s two ghosts wander through their house . The ghost are conducting a search. They look for something that may have been left out in the garden or up in the loft. The narrator is confused on what the ghost search can be. The mystery is deepened by the house itself to the searchers. The narrator hears the house heartbeat as the word “safe” repeatedly. The house also speaks the treasure hidden somewhere within each house. They must be what the ghost are looking for. Although she does not tell how, the narrator has learned few details from the ghosts life in the past. They lived in the house as husband and wife a hundred years before. The woman died suddenly and as a result the man left the house and disguise. After his death he returned to be reunited with his wife. The narrator realizes that what the ghost coul not find is joy of a loving relationship. She hears that the ghost husband tell his wife that their lives were full of kisses which cant count. Eventually the ghost come on the narrator and her husband asleep in their bed. The ghost seem to realized that the living couple may feel the kind of love they themselves once shared. The narrator lately knows that what the ghost have been searching for is his and her husband’s living love. She calls this feeling of joy and love the light in the heart.

Questions regarding the story “A Haunted House”

1. What is the real treasure of the story?2. What is the pulse of the house that is being speak repeatedly?3. What does the ghost man do after the death of his wife?4. Why does the ghost wander in the house?5. What does the ghost couple still seek?

Summary of the story “ The lady in the looking glass”

Isabella wants to hide her true identity from the world. She believes by locking away her letters in a drawer, people will continue to see and believe the identity that she puts on. People only see what she allows them to see. They see a rich and independent woman who has built a home for herself and travelled along the world to look for artifacts that want to put on her house. It seems that even Isabella does not want to examines who really she is. The looking glass allows one to view the secrets, skeletons and regrets of one’s life. At once the looking glass began to pour over her light that seemed to fix her. Everything dropped from her, clouds, dress, baskets, and diamond which can be called as creeper. Here was the hard wall beneath. Here was a woman herself. She stood uncover in that pitiless light. And, there was nothing. Isabella perfectly empty. She had no thoughtsno friends and she cared by nobody. Appearing in the looking glass, is yhe person that no one knows. Even Isabella does’nt want to admit she really is. The time she gets older, with wrinkles, graying hair, only bills left on the counter for money to be collected. Isabella feels like blank inside and her character is not reperesentative of the act she puts on when around other.she is not so pleasant.

Questions about the story “The Lady in the looking glass”

1. What character do Isabella have?2. Why do Isabella hides her true identity?3. How can be the looking-glass help to the characters in the story?4. Why can they say that Isabella is perfectly empty?5. What is the message of the story?

Summary of “The man who loved his kind”

Pricket Ellis who is a middle aged solicitor, is invited to a party by his old school friend Richard Dalloway. He doesn’t really like parties and has to borrow a dress suit to attend. He knows nobody in the party and feels awkward towards other guests. He comforts himself with the memory that earlier in the day two clients have presented him with a clock. He compliments his self on being plain, hardworking man of people and whom who can’t afford costly things. He ignores those people in the party who can do so. He feels choked by his own “goodness” because he is not able to make others aware of it. The host Mr. Richard Dalloway then introduces him to Miss O’Keefe who is very proud of her own sense of terrible anger against the world. Ellis tells her why he disapproves of such events, and he wants to tell her about the clock, but she prevents this by changing the topic into cultural conservations. When this exchange fails miserably, she appeals to his appreciating the sense of beauty, in the summer evening. He rejects the very idea of beauty, and instead tells her his story of the clock. She is shocked by just considering himself. When he considered his own moral and claims that he loved “his own kind”she claims the same too. Those arguments make both of them feel worse than ever – so they lived the party.

Questions about the “The man who loved his kind”

1. Who is the protagonist in the story/2. Who is the lady being introduced to Ellis by Dalloway?3. What do Ellis want to tell Miss O’Keefe but it keeps on changing the

topic and turn into cultural conservation?4. What trait do both characters have why they always argue?5. What are the story talks about?