red room and farthing house comparison
... Ideally, a good ghost story will keep you on the edge of your seat, as the narrator in ‘The Red Room’ found out, on hearing the tale of the old earl: “And there were other and older stories that clung to the room, back to the half-credible beginning of it all, the tale of the timid wife and the tragic end that came to her husbands jest of frightening her.” The two ghost stories we have studies - ‘The Red Room’ by H G Wells and ‘Farthing House’ by Susan Hill - both set to have an effect on the reader. ... The young man in ‘The Red Room’ meets a number of people; he meets two withered old men and an old woman. ... ” ‘Farthing House’, however is slightly different. The narrator’s intention is to visit her Aunt Addy and during her visit she meets other characters like the Matron of Farthing House, whom she meets when she first enters Farthing House, and the vicar whom she meets near the end. ... From the way the young man in ‘The Red Room’ behaves we can tell that he doesn’t believe in ghosts and acts quite sure about himself. In terms of the narrator of ‘Farthing House’ we learn that she’s a middle-aged lady who needs to tell the story of what happened to her in a letter to her daughter. ... The attitudes of the narrators are not constant through out the two stories, however at the beginning of ‘The Red Room’ the young man is showing signs of bravery for example he says: “I can assure you,’ said I, that it will take a very tangible ghost to frighten me.