A Haunted House And Three Pictures By Virginia Woolf

A Haunted House vs Three Pictures This response is based on the story A Haunted House and Three Pictures, by Virginia Woolf. It will feature the overall story, evidence and connections to modernism in these stories. These stories have a sense of loss or something missing which refines this literature to the definition of Modernism. Now onto the stories. A Haunted House brings the reader into reading that a house is having something mysterious out of the ordinary. Modernism was described in the story with the mysterious noises that was heard by the couple that were left with believing it could be a ghostly couple from the past of the woman’s life who left her legacy was left at the house. That sets up my case for challenging my opinion†¦show more content†¦Now the treasure belongs to the hubby once he went back to his old house after his trip. Let s backtrack to A Haunted House, For the man living in his Haunted Mansion who was dealt with grief of his own with the loss of his wife getting accustomed to living alone without having their significant loved ones right next to them. It s a tough transition to go from being married having (the time of their lives-Dirty Dancing) to getting accustomed to living in a house by themselves with different outlook of being alone with feeling down in a dark roo m by yourself knowing that your loved one is gone. The man was left to change his emotions around turn with him conquering to change his sadness into happiness for the widowed man. He left his house to take a trip up north then go east only be given information from reading the story to visualizing; predicting the main reason he left his home was to change the overall emotion he was physiology challenged with the bitter emotions of losing his wife since death is unexpected or invisible as we don t know what type of impacts these spouses had on their loved ones. For the woman who lost her husband in three pictures as she was challenged to conquer life as living as a Widower. The missing part from the story turns out to be, the ghost since the story didn’t tell who was the ghost it could’ve been the ghost of the late wife? or was this the prior residents who have lived at the house. As I wrap up thisShow MoreRelatedAlienation during the Victorian Era2655 Words   |  1 1 Pagesâ€Å"bullied and punished† her and â€Å"every morsel of flesh in [her] bones shrank† when he came near her (Bronte 7). Mrs. Reed, her aunt, puts Jane in the red room as a punishment for hurting John and she becomes mentally scarred by this as she believes it is haunted by her dead uncle and is never fully healed by this. Jane is never able to experience a source of love and sense of belonging while staying with her relatives displaying her alienation in her childhood. Jane is sent away to a girls’ school, LowoodRead MoreClose Reading2901 Words   |  12 Pagesphotograph represents, a notion of resurrection, ‘And nothing was left of the picture unsheathed from the past’ Hardy Gibson (1976). Metaphorically, he is looking back at Emma’s past and realises time has moved on and the moments they shared together once, only exist on paper. We can assume Hardy is showing snapshots of Emma’s life in the poem During Wind and Rain, as he is an unreliable writer who describes those in the pictures as ‘he, she, all of them’ (line 2) and the events he describes can be foundRead MoreFrom Salvation to Self-Realization18515 Words   |  75 Pages1880-1930. In The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 18801980, ed. by Richard Wightman Fox and T.J. Jackson Lears, New York: Pantheon Books, 1-38. Reprinted with the permission of the author. 1On or about December 1910, Virginia Woolf once said, human character changed. This hyperbole contains a kernel of truth. Around the turn of the century a fundamental cultural transformation occurred within the educated strata of Western capitalist nations. In the United States as elsewhere