Question

drama lines on shady plot full chapter story

Answer 1

The room is filled with middle-aged women belonging to his wife's book club.Lavina later speaks that "i am going back to my grandmother.My lawyer will communicate with you later.She goes back to her grandmother because she has learnt that her husband is carrying om a clandestine love affair.It like the husband has devastated,his marriage is on the rock. The narrator becomes into position not to contradict Jenkins because his magazine had been the only one to print his stuff.Jenkins is the publisher of the magazine.Jenkins later asked the narrator to  write him a ghost story.

Answer 2

Scene First

(Hallock is at his home and receives a phone call)

Phone ringing. Hallock picks up the phone.

Hallock: Hello!

Jenkins: Hello Hallock! Give us another on the supernatural this time. Something to give 'em the horrors; that's what the public wants, and your ghosts are live propositions.

Hallock: Sure. Give me a few days. Thanks.

Haloock hung up.

Scene Second

(Hallock is sitting in his study trying very hard to write the story, but is unable to write a single word. He feels it impossible almost to write.)

Hallock: This writing business is delightful, isn't it? Sometimes you really have to work very hard!

Ghost of Helen: Yes. I should say it is.

(Hallock jumps from his chair in fright)

Hallock (frightened): Who…are…you? What…do you…want …..from me?

 Ghost of Helen: (angrily) why are you gaping at me? You yourself send for me, didn’t you?

Hallock: (shocked) Why, no I – don’t seem to remember---!

Ghost of Helen: (angrily) Look here. Haven't you been calling on heaven and earth all afternoon to help you write a story?

Hallock: (confused and nervous) I--I'm very sorry, really.

Ghost of Helen: Well, you needn't be, because I just came to tell you to stop bothering us for assistance; you ain't going to get it. We're going on strike!

Hallock: (Surprised) What!

Ghost of Helen: You don't have to yell at me.

Hallock: (apologetically) I--I didn't mean to yell," I said humbly. "But I'm afraid I didn't quite understand you. You said you were----

Ghost of Helen: Going on strike. Don't you know what a strike is? Not another plot do you get from us!

Hallock: (understanding the situation a little) Is--is that where they've been coming from?

Ghost of Helen: Of course. Where else?

Hallock: But I never saw you before----

Ghost of Helen: And you wouldn't have this time if I hadn't come to announce the strike. Many a time I've leaned on your shoulder when you've thought you were thinking hard—But that's at an end. We've been called out of our beds a little too often in recent years, and now we're through.

Hallock: But my dear madam, I assure you I have had nothing to do with that. I hope I'm properly grateful and all that, you see.

Ghost of Helen: Oh, it isn't you, It's those Ouija board fanatics. There was a time when we had nothing much to occupy us and used to haunt a little on the side, purely for amusement, but not anymore. We've had to give up haunting almost entirely. We sit at a desk and answer questions now. And such questions!

Hallock: But what have I got to do with this?

Ghost of Helen: You're to exert your influence. Get all your friends and acquaintances to stop using the Ouija board, and then we'll start helping you to write.