Taken by my Gay Rose Bush 2 by Flint Ramrod

John Dent kept writing letters to Rebecca and once sent a picture of Agnes to her. Dent neglected her medical treatment, and she died. Dent had always ill-treated Agnes and a year ago when the sixteen-year-old girl was ill, Mrs. She was doing so because she did not want Rebecca to file a case against her as her niece’s murderess. Dent tries to hide the truth of Agnes’s death from Rebecca. It was only Rebecca who was unaware of this crucial fact. Everyone in Ford Village, including the postmaster Thomas and his simple-minded wife, was aware that Agnes was dead and most probably had been murdered by her stepmother Mrs. One would presume that this story’s central theme would be about secrets. This story has several themes, the main one being deception. She had left her teaching job and had the time to care for Agnes. Rebecca now wanted to take care of Agnes because she had inherited some money. Her father, John Dent, was dead, but he was in constant touch with his first wife’s sister Rebecca while alive. Emeline Dent alone in a house away from the main village. The daughter’s mother, Grace, was deceased, and her only daughter Agnes used to live with her stepmother Mrs. ‘The Wind in the Rose-Bush’ is a paranormal short story about a spinster Rebecca Flint who has come to Ford Village to take her elder sister’s daughter with her back to Michigan. One of Hawthorne’s stories is a Puritan ghost story titled ‘The Minister’s Black Veil’. I have analyzed two shorts stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne on my blog. She was distantly related to another American writer, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Her books dealt with Puritanism, and she was one of the first women in America to be elected to the National Institute for Arts and Letters. Mary Wilkins Freeman was a prominent American writer who was born in Massachusetts. However, this short story titled ‘The Wind in the Rose-Bush’ was published in 1903.

‘The Wind in the Rose-Bush’ is a nineteenth-century Puritan ghost story penned by American writer Mary Wilkins Freeman. ‘The Wind in the Rose-Bush’ by Mary Wilkins Freeman: Short Story Analysis

Taken by my Gay Rose Bush 2 by Flint Ramrod