"Kerfol" by Edith Wharton

F. Scott Fitzgerald called her letter "one of the most famous failures in American literature history".

Edith Wharton's "Kerfol" is a ghost story that hides the deeper meaning. It is a social commentary on the role of gender in the late 19th and early 20th century. As the story evolved, an unknown narrator went to Kerfall with the intention of buying property. Upon arrival, he met a group of silent dogs who later discovered that they were ghosts of their former self. By reading the history of the house, he learned that his owner was beaten to death by a supernatural creature and his wife was tried for his death. The date between a woman and a lover can be used as a crime scene, but eventually a woman is sentenced to live the rest of her life at the lonely house of life and marriage. This is a perception of oppression that a woman feels on that day, that suppression that its personality can not escape from his prison.

World War I left Edith Wharton in "afflicted people", "Hermione Lee said in her recent biography," Paris became a spectacle and a melancholy city for her, " . Wharton was influenced by the collapse of beloved France and influenced her writing, "The strange novel of the war era was a story called" Kelfol "(1916). A wealthy singles person was urged by a friend to buy a house in Brittany and I learned that the heritage of Kelfol is surrounded by a group of strange silent dogs, not humans. Under the guidance of local residents, the narrator wrote a regional record depicting the 200-year history of a woman threatened by sensuous trials of detained husband, mysterious, terrible murder, and survivors. - RWB Lewis called it "one of the most exciting exercises of Edith Wharton's violence, fear, and imagination about pornography."

Edith Wharton wrote several ghost stories, like her friend Henry James who tried to make creative changes to this type of plot and theme. There are many standard elements in Köfol - ancient abandoned castle, evil 'king', his beautiful young wife, and maybe (all characters come from medieval romance), but still a ghost Let's be a revenge group of dogs As long as the results of Anne traditionally provide a serious consequence of the victim and a tragic story