What is the treasure that is being sought? Notice Woolfs use of ...

[evelyn o bentley]

What is the treasure that is being sought? Notice Woolfs use of silverat several points of the story. What is the real treasure in the house?
 
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Question 2

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?

[carojassy25]

Answer to Question 1

• The narrator attempts to discover what the ghosts are seeking. She knows they search for their treasure, but what precisely is that precious hoard? She gradually pieces together that this treasure is emotional rather than material. In the last line, she realizes that it is the light in the heart. The living lovers have unwittingly inherited the dead couples treasurea wealth of private joy.

Answer to Question 2

• Daichess 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.

[evelyn o bentley]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

[juliaf]

Excellent