The ghost resolves to himself that these are gross materialists incapable of appreciating him, and he determines to do only his minimal duty as a ghost. Dobell’s tincture for indigestion to the ghost, and the twins set up a mock ghost that terrifies him. The humiliation of the ghost continues, and he finally resorts to stealing Virginia’s paints to restore the bloodstain that Washington removes daily. He mentally runs through his list of brilliant performances, all of which resulted in the death or madness of those he frightened, and vows revenge. In 300 years, the Canterville ghost has not been so insulted. When the ghost flees, groaning in an attempt to terrify the family, the twins throw pillows at him. With red eyes, long gray matted hair, ragged clothes, and chains hanging from his wrists and ankles, the ghost is furious when Otis calmly requests that he use Tammany Rising Sun Lubricator to silence the noise of the chains. Otis is awakened by the clanging of metal and the appearance of the Canterville ghost. The next morning, the bloodstain has returned, as it does each morning after Washington removes it. Washington promptly removes the stain with Pinkerton’s Champion Stain Remover and Paragon Detergent. He survived his wife for nine years before disappearing under strange circumstances, and his body was never discovered.

It is Sir Simon’s ghost that haunts Canterville. Otis notices a bloodstain which the housekeeper identifies as the blood of Lady Eleanore de Canterville, murdered by her husband Sir Simon in 1575. Tappan their eldest son, Washington their 15-year-old daughter, Virginia and their twins, nicknamed the “Stars and Stripes.” Upon entering their new home, Mrs. The Otis family consists of Hiram his wife, the New York belle Lucretia R. Otis refuses to believe that there is any ghost, and the purchase is completed.

Canterville tells Otis that the ghost has been around since 1584 and makes an appearance before any family death.

Otis replies only that since Americans live in a modern country and have everything that money can buy, if there is a ghost they would just as soon have it in a museum. When warned about the ghost by Canterville, Mr. Otis, who buys a haunted English mansion from Lord Canterville. Analysis of Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghostįirst published in the Court and Society Review, “The Canterville Ghost,” subtitled “a Hylo-Idealistic Romance,” concerns an American minister, Mr.

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