The Man with the Withered Arm

The man with the withered arm (one of the custodians) is named with a

distinctive feature of his bod.

The man with the withered arm (one of the custodians) is named with a

distinctive feature of his body. He is very suppositious and warns the

young man more than once with repetition ‘It’s your own choosing’

meaning that he does not recommend that the young man enters the

allegedly haunted room.

The old woman of the story (one of the custodians) is described as

pale eyed. She seemed to be the more realistic about the room then

what the other three did. When we were first introduced to her she was

sitting in a chair to show that she was an influenced person in the

castle. The character that stood out other than the narrator was of

the old man. The way he walked in suggests that he has some sort of

power in the castle. He’s eyes were coved with shade; this shows that

he’s hiding something but is not going to say. He also had yellow

teeth that suggest that he is older than he looks. It’s like tooth

brushes were not invented when he was younger. Later down the text you

get a glimpse of his eyes. ‘I caught a momentary glimpse of his eyes,

small and bright and inflamed. This suggests that he is not well and

wants to know what’s in the Room before he dies.

At the end of the story was an unexpected twist. Instead of a ghost in

the Red Room, there was the most frightening thing known to man. Fear.

As a famous philosopher once said ‘The only thing to fear is fear it’s

self.’ The way the writer

Showed tension between the custodians was amazing. Once the narrator

was out the Room the custodians were all asking questions showing that

they really did want to know what was in that Room. The custodians all

secretly had there own opinions of who the Ghost was. The old woman

thought it was the Countess. The old man thought it was the Earl but

we don’t know who the withered old man thought it was. It turned out

they were all wrong.

The story line of ‘The Signalman’ is bases on actual circumstances

that Dickens experienced in his life-that of the railway accident. He

has used this experience on which to include some of the elements and

also those of Victorians liking of the supernatural tale.

In this story a man who is interested in what the signal man does goes

and talks to him. The signal man was kind of shocked that someone was