The Feather Pillow Sparknotes

Gothic literature is a style of writing that is made up of fear, horror, death, and gloom. The Gothic creature in the story picked is a giant tick, the gothic theme is horror and death because the wendigo has taken a little child and was taking her deeper into the woods in “The Feather Pillow” the author of the story is written by Horacio Quiroga. The audience is introduced to the gothic villain known as a giant tick. The recurring symbol of “Lack of Blood” appears throughout the story because the tick is slowly taking the wife's blood. For example, during the story, the guy's wife has bite marks on her neck, but he never realized because he was never there with his wife. Eventually the giant tick had eaten the guy's wife, but he was never