Deception In The Open Window

What is deception? Deception is when the act of deceiving someone or something. There are many ways of deceiving people; can deceive them to the eye, and the ear. Throughout our lives we may deceive someone and yet we may be the one's who get deceived. Its quite comical because, many different perspectives or the way we see things can alter or change the way we see them, or in other words they deceive us. In the story, The Open Window , the way the characters are demonstrated in the story portray a sense of deception.

To begin, the first character from the Open Window, is Vera she is a very tricky little girl which means that she is very deceiving. Vera in the beginning of the story seems very innocent and willing to help the man. But towards the end of the story you realize that she is a pathological lair which at the end of the story is very evident. The way the little girl tells the man, "Out through that window, three years ago to a day, her husband and her two young brothers went off for their day's shooting. They never came back. In crossing the moor to their favorite snipe-shooting ground they were all three engulfed in a treacherous piece of bog. It had been that dreadful wet summer, you know, and places that were safe

The aunt didn't have a clue of what the little girl had told the man and so when the men "ghosts" appear and then Frampton runs off she is all confused. She even at one moment almost pleaded for the men to come back which then made it look like she was almost crazy. She was just waiting for them to come home; but the man knew from what the little girl had told him, that they were dead. Also, this story would not have deception it would not be a story at all. It is what tricks the readers, and the old man, which makes it such a good story. But towards the end of the story you realize that she is a pathological lair which at the end of the story is very