Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Why did the father wish not to see his son in "The Monkey's Paw?his third wish

The son had been in a machine accident. Possibly his image
was marred beyond recognition. The father realized that his son would look like a
monster. This would be more than he and wife could have
handled.


In fact, the father does not desire to wish for
his son to be alive again, but his wife is insistent:


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He tries to tell her that since he was mangled in
the machinery and had been buried for a week, it would not be a wise wish. But she
insists.



This is reason the
father made his third wish. He could not bear to look on his son who had been mangled in
a machinery accident. The father knew that his wife could not handle what sight she was
about to see, had the father not made a third
wish.




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