“A Haunted House,” according to critic David Daiches, is not a storyat all, but “simply an exercise in the writing of fluid associative prose.” What do you think? Can any elements we usually find in a story be found in “A Haunted House”?
What will be an ideal response?
- Daiches’s comment may confirm what some students feel, but are too reticent to say. This brief work reads less like a conventional, plotted story than like a lyric poem in its brevity, its rhythmic language (“the wind drives straightly; the flame stoops slightly”), the slightness of its narrative, and its metaphors (happiness is a treasure; “death was the glass, death was between us”). Still, “A Haunted House” tells a story, whose events we can cast into chronological order. The piece is also animated by characters whose motives make it resemble fiction more than merely “associative prose.”
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