The Monkey's Paw

Imagine that you have three wishes from a monkeys paw what. Is the first thing you would wish for? You have to be careful though because the monkeys paw takes your wishes and turns them into something twisted and horrible. In the short story “The Monkey’s Paw” the plotline is a romance, and the story's point is to tell people to be thankful for what you have and to be careful what you wish for.

How is this story a Irony? To begin with it is unrealistic. In the beginning of this story it is a perfect world. The old man and his wife have excellent lives and a great house. On page eight of the story he says “It seems to me I’ve got all I want”. After this a mild conflict comes into the story which is the monkeys paw. Another thing is in this story the old man is not in control whatever he wishes for is twisted by the monkeys paw. On page nineteen he cried “For God’s sake don’t let it in” referring to his son he just wished back to life. Notice how he said IT. The son dying is at the end of the story which is the death symbolism at the end.

Though the plotline is Irony there is a very important lesson to this story as well. The main lesson or moral to this story is that you have to be thankful for what you have. Some people weren’t as fortunate as the old man in this story. The old man had a home and a wife, food, and clean drinking water. The old man had all the things he needed; then wished for money on page eight of the story when he said “I wish for two hundred pounds”. Then it ruined part of his house. If he didn’t do that it would have never happened him. This story has a very important point to it.

In real life you have to be very careful what you wish for; because sometimes it can happen. When it happens sometimes it happens you are unable to change it back. This story has an important point to it and the plotline has a lot of proof it is a romance.