The Bloody Chamber is a novel filled with short stories. The short story I chose to read was the first story of the book, The Bloody Chamber. It is about a seventeen year old girl marries a rich old man and claims to have definite love and affection towards him. She notices the small flaws about him that make him seem almost dead such as his stone cold eyes. Though, she refused to leave him. Her mother expresses dissatisfaction at the marriage but does not tell her daughter not to go through with it. After the marriage, her new husband take her on their honeymoon. They arrive at his castle on an island and seconds after they arrive he takes her virginity only to leave a couple moments later for “important” business reasons. He leaves his new
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She spends her time playing the piano after the piano tuner tunes the piano. She messes up on one of the keys and decides that was enough her so, she begins wandering around the castle. Stumbling upon her husband’s office, she chooses to take a peek in it. She rummages through his file cabinets and crosses path with a folder. In the folder contained information on his ex-wife and a small description of his marriage with her. The narrator is shocked at the new information and quickly throws the folder back in the cabinet but, as everyone knows, curiosity killed the cat. She takes the key that her husband asked her not to use and opens the door he hoped she wouldn’t open.
The room was dimly lit. The only lit was from the matches she had to constantly light in order to see. Inside the room were skeletons and the worse thing she saw was the coffin. She opens the coffin and sees a freshly killed body stabbed by thousands of …show more content…
“She whom I loved in youth,” was the opening line of the second paragraph. Poe describes this person, whom he loved, as someone who is much younger than he. He speaks about metaphorically getting away in the “Valley of the Many-Colored Grass,” where no one could bother them. Poe not only wrote that these two had married while this child was young but that she was his cousin. In The Bloody Chamber, the main character (also the narrator) is at such a young age when she marries and this guy that she marries is old. She leaves on her honeymoon with her new husband and in a way, gets away from
She spends her time playing the piano after the piano tuner tunes the piano. She messes up on one of the keys and decides that was enough her so, she begins wandering around the castle. Stumbling upon her husband’s office, she chooses to take a peek in it. She rummages through his file cabinets and crosses path with a folder. In the folder contained information on his ex-wife and a small description of his marriage with her. The narrator is shocked at the new information and quickly throws the folder back in the cabinet but, as everyone knows, curiosity killed the cat. She takes the key that her husband asked her not to use and opens the door he hoped she wouldn’t open.
The room was dimly lit. The only lit was from the matches she had to constantly light in order to see. Inside the room were skeletons and the worse thing she saw was the coffin. She opens the coffin and sees a freshly killed body stabbed by thousands of …show more content…
“She whom I loved in youth,” was the opening line of the second paragraph. Poe describes this person, whom he loved, as someone who is much younger than he. He speaks about metaphorically getting away in the “Valley of the Many-Colored Grass,” where no one could bother them. Poe not only wrote that these two had married while this child was young but that she was his cousin. In The Bloody Chamber, the main character (also the narrator) is at such a young age when she marries and this guy that she marries is old. She leaves on her honeymoon with her new husband and in a way, gets away from