Fate In The Monkey's Paw

A person’s fate is already decided before he was born, it’s just following what will happen in a person’s life, Seneca the younger said that before: “Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.” The women got dragged by fate--Ms.Eloise, her action like to yell husband, leaved the room hastily made her being arrested, she didn’t means to do it, but this is the irony of fate. What if a person tried to violate the fate? The ending should be miserable to him, it’s definitely more sad than the person dragged by fate. The men-- Mr. White tried to use monkey’s paw to change his fate, but the ending could image, he lost his kid. In the first story “The monkey’s paw”, Mr.White’s setting is not a positive character, at the beginning we could see he was a cheater while playing the chess with his kid. “ ‘Listen to the wind,’ said Mr.White. He had made a serious mistake and wanted to distract his son’s attention so that he wouldn’t see it.”(Jacobs, 1) He is not a good player of chess, not only shown on this part, after he lost the game, he always want to break the rules that the position is not …show more content…
If he could listen to the Sergeant, wished logically, the ending for Mr.White shouldn’t be that miserable. The ending is connected to irony and fate, showed if a person want to change his fate, he must use a logical way. For the second story “The Joke on Eloise Morey”, it is another way showed how fate teases a person. Ms.Eloise yelled her husband in the beginning of the story. “You’re not a man; are you a child? or an insect? or what? You know I don’t want you- you’ll never be anything.”(Hammett, 1). Those yelled indirectly caused the death of his husband who killed himself use the gun which in her drawer. Only a piece of word could break the last straw of a men, the fate arranges the cause and effect of this