The story does not present a good perspective on the idea of wishing away problems. The wife hurries to let in their potentially mutilated and monstrous child while the husband scrambles for the paw with the intention of using the final wish to reverse the second (he should have just reversed it all, and gone back in time to allow the major to burn the thing.) Regardless of what other efforts the husband could/should have chosen, he choses to kill his son for the second time in the nine-page story. The wife insists that the wish be made anyway and the husband does as told. The man insists that whatever live could be wished into their child would turn him into something else, that Herbert was gone. The decides the two events (wish and compensation) were coincidences, while the wife believes there was a correlation and that they should use one of their two remaining wishes to bring their son back to life. In which the couple learns that greed has horrible consequence. Herbert goes to work at a factory and doesn’t come home, instead a lawyer for the place arrives at the house and tells the couple that the son had died in a machinery accident and that the compensation for his death would be the exact amount that the father wished to have. The family decides that the paw was a story and a joke. The major leaves and the money seems to not be coming. He holds thing as the major told him to and wished for money per his son’s request. White snatchers the charm from the fire it was thrown in. He said that the paw had already killed the first man, and that he himself was the second man. The major explained that the magic paw could grant three wishes to three separate men who possessed the thing. White brought up that location into the conversation. The major tells the family that he gained the item in India, after Mr.
White) and their adult son (Herbert) acquire a supposedly magic rabbit’s paw from a soldier called Major-Major Morris. The Monkey’s Paw is a short story written by W.W.
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