Part 1 of Essay
? The success of any short story depends upon the skill with which the plot moves. The writer does not have the time to develop ideas that he has in a novel but at the same time all those elements must be present. The unusual element in “The Monkey’s Paw” is how much the plot depends upon coincidence and irony. The succe ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... blame me for what happens.” - The major coincidence centred on the £200. “How could £200 hurt you.” She will soon find out. There are two climaxes in the story. The first is how they get the £200 (the fact that Hubert did not only die but the way he died, a horrible mutilated death) and the second the tension associated with the knocking at the door. - Hubert the son is himself the focus in what happens to him of some tragic irony. He refers to the money and uses the words “before I come back” and he neve ....