How Is Tension Built Up In “The Monkey’s Paw” And “The Red Room”?

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(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 never does come back. His mother says of her son “when he comes home” again he never does come home. Hubert himself says prophetically “I don’t see the money and I bet I never shall.” This is tragic irony.

Language is always used, as in poetry, to convey atmosphere in a good story. In a story about the supernatural, you should expect a strong link between the language and the action so the language reinforces what is going on. An example of this is the following vocabulary on page 37: “talisman, crash, shuddering, disgust, twisted, shock, dying, uneasy, shiver, dirty, shrivelled and something horrible squatting.”

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