In the short story, “The Monkey’s Paw” written by W. W. Jacobs, which is a story playing a game of fate and chance. The story has one to believe that a person’s life is destined by fate but in the same time interfered with one’s sorrow. The dirty paw which belongs to a monkey had unusual controlling type of powers. The author provides the audience with many details that alluring fate by making three wishes to the monkey’s paw would be a mistake, not a reward.
The story starts off with the characters playing a game of chess adding their own spin to the game with the rule being once a move is made, it cannot be undone. With the game of chess the outcome results are determined by the moves made by each player. When one would make a wish by the lucky charm the wish could not be underdone like the rule pertaining to chess. The first player has made his three wishes with one of those wishes being death. “The first person of the monkey’s paw had wished for death in order to cancel out his first two wishes that he had made. Referring to the game of chess, the writer adds that the father, Mr. White just made a serious mistake which had resulting in the son’s victory. One may not know that this was only the beginning for more foretelling events to come.
Fate plays an interesting role as the story begins to unfold. A flash back to the game of chess, Mr. White’s fate was to find a way to interfere with fate. The game of chess showed that his one bad move resulted in a bad judgment call that affected his son. Mr. White’s bad judgment call showed that he gave into the monkey’s paw of getting whatever he wanted by simply speaking it in a wish form that wishes are usually granted but come with a very high ticket price.
When Morris decided to throw the monkey’s paw in the fire it was an attempt to get rid of it. With the fire being the only element that could destroy such an evil