Comparing The Landlady And Monkey's Paw

Taxidermy, poisonous tea, and magical monkey's paws populate these books, creating various characters, settings, and moods that both connect and contrast each other. "The Landlady" and "Monkey's Paw" are collectively creepy from all perspectives. As "The Landlady" follows a young man as he is poisoned and preserved by a middle-aged woman and "Monkey's Paw" describes how a family is negatively affected by wishing on a monkey's paw that is said to have mysterious powers, both illustrate scenes that leave readers' skin crawling.

Within the pages of these two books live the landlady, a middle aged bed and breakfast owner who is not exactly how she appears, and Mrs. White, a mother and wife who is hit hard by her son's death and will do whatever
Her overly compassionate antics add to the eerie characteristics about her. By bringing Billy inside, her ultimate goal is to kill and preserve him. Within the depths of her mind, the landlady formulates plans to murder innocent young men. She desires the companionship included with keeping these boys in her immediate possession at the Bed and Breakfast. Without any doubt, the internal character of the landlady is evil and devious, using sly, underhanded tactics to reach her malevolent goal of slaughter. On the contrary, Mrs. White is of genuine kindness and good intent. Because of her sweet disposition, Mrs. White is against the use of the monkey's paw, until the end of the book, when all she can wrap her head around is getting her dead son, Herbert, back. Enveloped within the middle-aged woman, Mrs. White is a diplomatic person who devotes such immense love to her husband and son. When Herbert died, she could not wrap her mind around the concept. A world without her son was a world she wanted no part in. Although it seems impossible, the spooky landlady and charitable Mrs. White are connected. For one part,
"The Landlady" is set in the city of Bath, England. The structures are all extremely similar looking. Being in a large city with buildings that all seem to be about the same enables the landlady to take people in, never to be seen again, without the general populous paying attention to the matter. Time period for this book could not be any time recently, because young men disappearing would travel through the media quickly, and a proper investigation would be made. Contrarily, "The Monkey's Paw" is located in the British countryside. This out-of-the-way setting adds effect and causes readers to feel the fright included. Big city, small town, they're seemingly unrelated. The bridge connecting the two is the connotation. A large town with torrential conditions and rows of identical buildings immediately seems a little frightening, and a small house surrounded by extremely windy and rainy weather caused one's heart to