Bad Choices In The Monkey's Paw

A lot of people make bad choices in their life that they wish they could take back but they can’t take it back. This is also proven in a lot of books since characters in books make mistakes all the time, and we can see what the bad choices are before the characters in the book figure it out. This is shown in “The Monkey’s Paw,” when a character named Mr. White makes three poor decisions that affect the outcome of the story. The first bad choice that Mr. White had done was, that he had taken the monkey’s paw in the first place. Even when Morris had warned Mr. White against taking it, because he had seen what the monkey’s paw could do to people who used it. Since Mr. White couldn’t see what the monkey’s paw had done himself or that it had even worked at all, he took the paw. Another thing was that the he should have believed the man when he told him to throw it away, since the man was his friend or he at least knew the man well. …show more content…
White had made that was unwise, was that he had wished for Two thousand dollars. Since Mr. White hadn’t even believed that it would work tp began with, he shouldn’t have wished for so much money when he had been warned what it could do to him, and his family by his friend Morris. But he chose to make the wish anyway when his son and wife had egged him on to do, just in case it does work and they get the money. But anytime when you get money, it has to come from somewhere and something had to have happened for you to get that money in the first place. For Mr. White, that was having his son Herbert die in an accident at his work, so the company that the son had worked at gave Mr and Mrs White two thousand