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> Do you think the fantastic events of the story could have taken place? Explain.​

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What "The Monkey's Paw" seems to illustrate is the truth that we often regret receiving things we wished for. This doesn't mean that we are interfering with fate, because fate is whatever happens to us, including getting things we regret. An example of the truth that we often regret receiving things we wished for would be wishing for an expensive car and then getting killed in it. I knew a man who bought one of those second-hand Rolls Royce Silver Shadows because he expected it to be a fine machine and also because he wanted to make a big impression on other people. The car kept breaking down, and the mechanics had to send to England for parts, some of which no longer existed. He told me it was the worst car he ever owned. He had to pay a lot of money to the dealer to take it back. There must be many examples in literature. In Maupassant's "The Necklace," the heroine wants to borrow what looks like a diamond necklace. When she loses it, she and her husband spend ten years paying for a duplicate, only to discover that the necklace was only a cheap fake. A woman might want to have a baby and give birth to a child who causes her nothing but misery and shame. If we were "interfering with fate" every time we decided we wanted something, we would never acquire anything. That was probably how the Indian fakir lived--a bowl of rice a day (gotten by begging), a pair of sandals, a loincloth, sleeping under a tree. When we wish for things we are not interfering with fate but risking disappointment and sometimes disillusionment. Read "The Great Good Place" by Henry James. Or Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

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