The story ends with an unexpected twist which changes the mood of the story
completely. What was the mood in the beginning and how does the story end?
This is the open window by saki (H. H. MUNRO) PLEASE ANSWER ME PLEASE
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"The Open Window" is told from a third-person narrative perspective, and the narrative voice has a gentle, humorous, witty tone to it. For example, when the main character, Framton, tells his hosts about his illness, Saki writes:
Framton . . . laboured under the tolerably widespread delusion that total strangers and chance acquaintances are hungry for the least detail of one's ailments and infirmities, their cause and cure.
The tone of phrases like "laboured under the tolerably widespread delusion" seems to be sarcastically condescending but in a gentle, playful way. The tone is very reminiscent of P. G. Wodehouse, a well-loved English humorist, who wrote sentences like, "He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle in the bottom," and "He had just enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more."
In Saki's short story, the humorous tone is also evident at the end of the story. After we discover that the tale the niece told Framton, which made him flee in terror from the house, was entirely made up, Saki writes, "Romance was her speciality." The tone here is one of dry, comic understatement.
There is also in the story a rather suspenseful, macabre tone while we, along with Framton, believe the niece's tale about the three men who died in the marsh, supposedly three years ago to the day of this story. Introducing the tale, the niece declares that, "Her [Mrs. Sappleton's] great tragedy happened just three years ago." She then points to an open window and says to Framton, "You may wonder why we keep that window wide open on an October afternoon," before explaining that the poor...
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