The Monkey's Paw Morris Analysis

As the name suggests, “The Monkey’s Paw” is about the paw of a monkey that grants wishes, and how it breaks a family. The story begins with the White family having a visit from Sergeant Major Morris, and Morris tells the story of his adventure in India. Morris then brings out a souvenir from India, a monkey’s paw. Morris tells the Whites what the paw can do, grant wishes, and tells them what the paw has done to the past owners. He says that two more people owned the paw before him, and he doesn’t remember the first one’s wishes, but he does know the last wish for the second user was for death. He says that he already used his three wishes, and Mr. White asks him if he still needs it. He says that he doesn’t, however, keeps it for fancy, and