Comparing and Contrasting the Plots of Lochinvar and The Highwayman
The stories “Lochinvar”, by Sir Walter Scott, and “The Highwayman”, by Alfred Noyes, have similarities and differences between their plots. ... This is true because at the end of “The Highwayman”, the writer describes how on a certain night, “when the wind is in the trees, when the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon the seas…” that the ghosts of the highwayman and Bess come together. Also, in “Lochinvar”, Sir Walter Scott writes “She is won! ... “Lochinvar” is in Scotland, and “The Highwayman” is set in Britain or America prior to the American revolution.