Wishing Box Essay

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Wishing box 2. Title I will tell you about Sylvia Plath short story: The wishing box. I would start with the title, because it is interesting to take a look at the fist impressions about the title wishing box. For me it suggests that the story tells about a magical box with an ability to make things better or brings wishes to fruition. On the basis of the title it could be a fantasy with a plot plays in a visionary world also. Because of the mysterious title it can suggest happy and terrible ending at the same time. 3. What did you dream? None the less the title gives the impression of a magical story, after few paragraphs it figures out, that the story is far from a fairy tale, as it let us to have a picture about the morning talkings of a just married couple, Harold and Agnes Higgins, who are the protagonists of this short story. However, their conversations are not so happy as it should be, because it pivoted on the same topic, there is a periodic question, asked usually by Agnes: ’What did you dream last night’? This question is in the centre of the whole story, as everytime this question appears, it cause stress between the couple. The reason of this stress the following: Harold has such a fertile imagination, that can not be topped. He often has a dream about famuos people, amusing events or exhilarating words. And what is the most annoying for Agnes, is the fact that Harold always one of the attendant of his own dreams, so, in this way he has the possibility to take part in another, more exciting and alive life, in wich Agnes can not participate in. This unfortunate situation can be considered as a curse ont he young couple, because the first ungrateful experience about Harold’s dreaming was during their wedding night. That dreaming has a rather negative effect on their later marriage, as we will see. After a while, Agnes feels the problem so serious,
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