![]() ![]() ![]() The entire story is structured around the boarded window, a kind of symbolic threshold, which unites the turning points of the narrative and "functions to enhance the suspense by directing attention toward the question of why it is boarded". "That of Granny Magone" is Bierce's earlier treatment of a similar subject. Analysisīierce's story of a man who incorrectly thought his wife had died of fever is probably influenced by Poe's "The Premature Burial". Upon examining the wife's corpse, Murlock sees that there is part of the panther's ear in between her teeth. He fires his rifle to see what is going on and witnesses a panther dragging his wife by the neck. The Boarded Window Ambrose Bierce Difficult SYNOPSIS This grisly incident of the Ohio frontier took place in 1830, but the narrator learned its details. ![]() The table shakes and there is movement but in the dark it is hard to discern. When he awoke there was some other presence in the room and he could feel it. ![]() Later on, with her dead in the room, he fell asleep. There was no means of saving her and thus, he found himself alone with her dead body. In 1820, Murlock had returned from hunting to find his wife in dire fits that eventually caused her to die. The narrator tells the reader that this is all the known facts of the story, but there are some whispers about what had happened. He was buried near the cabin next to his wife. The story tells of a man named Murlock who lived alone in his cabin and was found dead one day. ![]()
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