The Little Room

My first thought of this was that the beginning, where no mentioning of who’s speaking gives me a mysterious feeling (even before reading on). The first mention of the shallow china-closet already makes me think that there maybe something later on that is related to it. From being a room to a china-closet almost gives it a supernatural vibe. For Margaret’s mother, the little room seemed to be a figment of her imagination from her childhood (from what I understand, there was a little room that her mother always played in, but to others, there was ever only a china-closet there). As a child, it was easy to merge reality with imagination… where it eventually seemed like reality to her. The ending where the house was just burnt down last night really ties together the feel of the supernatural right to it’s ending.

The supernatural and a child’s imagination always made me think of many ghost-like stories. I was always told that a child is much more sensitive to the supernatural compared to an adult because he/she is so innocent. They are able to see things clearly and able to give a plain answer; it is normally the adult that dismisses what a child sees, claiming that it is a figment of their hyperactive imagination.