“She shuddered at the first sight of it… it was a sad looking place… Big, solemn oaks grew close to it, as their thick-leaved, far-reaching branches shadowed it like a pall.” The imagery in this quote reveals the darkness of a place that is ironically called a “shelter”, and Madame Valmonde mentions the “pall” that is cast over the house, that being a term relating to death a clue as to what may possibly occur later in
“She shuddered at the first sight of it… it was a sad looking place… Big, solemn oaks grew close to it, as their thick-leaved, far-reaching branches shadowed it like a pall.” The imagery in this quote reveals the darkness of a place that is ironically called a “shelter”, and Madame Valmonde mentions the “pall” that is cast over the house, that being a term relating to death a clue as to what may possibly occur later in