Dare's Gift (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ellen Glasgow
- First Published: 1925
- Type of Plot: Ghost story, frame story, fantasy
- Time of Work: The early twentieth century
- Setting: Virginia
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Mildred, Pelham Lakeby, Lucy Dare
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Virginia, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Wives, Love or romance, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Supernatural, Betrayal, Ghosts or apparitions, Mental illness, Civil War, War, Loyalty, Patriotism, Confederate States of America, Mental health
- Locales: Virginia
The Story
The narrator asks himself if he is sure that the event of the previous year really happened, for he thinks “the whole episode, seen in clear perspective, is obviously incredible.” He knows that haunted houses are merely hallucinations, neurotic symptoms, or optical illusions because the supernatural has been banished in the modern scientific age. However, he must admit that for once in his life as a corporation lawyer in Washington, D.C., the impossible really happened.
The story begins with the narrator's desire to find a place in the country for his...
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