A Haunted House

by

Virginia Woolf

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Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting. From room to room they went, hand in hand, lifting here, opening there, making sure—a ghostly couple.

"Here we left it," she said. And he added, "Oh, but here too!" "It's upstairs," she murmured. "And in the garden," he whispered. "Quietly," they said, "or we shall wake them."

Related Characters: The Narrator (speaker), The Husband (speaker), The Wife (speaker)
Related Symbols: The House
Page Number: 1
Explanation and Analysis:

"They're looking for it; they're drawing the curtain," one might say, and so read on a page or two. "Now they've found it," one would be certain [...] And then, tired of reading, one might rise and see for oneself, the house all empty, the doors standing open, only the wood pigeons bubbling with content and the hum of the threshing machine sounding from the farm.

Related Characters: The Narrator (speaker), The Husband, The Wife
Related Symbols: The House
Page Number: 1
Explanation and Analysis:

So fine, so rare, coolly sunk beneath the surface the beam I sought always burnt behind the glass. Death was the glass; death was between us; coming to the woman first, hundreds of years ago, leaving the house, sealing all the windows; the rooms were darkened. He left it, left her, went North, went East, saw the stars turned in the Southern sky; sought the house, found it dropped beneath the Downs.

Related Characters: The Narrator (speaker), The Husband, The Wife
Related Symbols: Light and Darkness, The House
Page Number: 2
Explanation and Analysis:

The wind roars up the avenue. Trees stoop and bend this way and that. Moonbeams splash and spill wildly in the rain. But the beam of the lamp falls straight from the window. The candle burns stiff and still. Wandering through the house, opening the windows, whispering not to wake us, the ghostly couple seek their joy.

Related Characters: The Narrator (speaker), The Husband, The Wife
Related Symbols: Light and Darkness, The House
Page Number: 2
Explanation and Analysis:

"Safe, safe, safe," the heart of the house beats proudly. "Long years—" he sighs. "Again you found me." "Here," she murmurs, "sleeping; in the garden reading; laughing, rolling apples in the loft. Here we left our treasure—" Stooping, their light lifts the lids upon my eyes. "Safe! safe! safe!" the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry "Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart."

Related Characters: The Narrator (speaker), The Husband (speaker), The Wife (speaker)
Related Symbols: Light and Darkness, The House
Page Number: 2
Explanation and Analysis:
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