All throughout the story if the mood had changed from creepy to sad and strange moments. The dark night feeling since it was a late cold and wet night made the mood even stranger, the house was dark with the fire place burning wood brightly. The family of three lived far out which made it even worse. The mood was just as creepy as the setting of the story. The old man and son were playing chess as the father had made a mistake hoping that the son wouldn’t catch it. Herbert had caught his mistake and all of a sudden called out checkmate when he win the …show more content…
The father had thought it was a game: he should have just let Sergeant- Morris burn it in the fire place and none of this would of happened. The myth of the historic Monkey’s Paw was really true, the family of three had to find out the hard way. They didn’t respect what was told to them. They should take into consideration that wrongs don’t make a right when a person is giving you knowledge about something that is real serious. The innocent family who started off as calm and cool ended up as a sad