Love Is The Treasure of Our Life

Amu Shimomichi

645 R & W

Amy Lee

5/10/2013

Love Is The Treasure of Our Life

The short story “A Haunted House”, the author Virginia Woolf writes, “From room to room they went, hand in hand, lifting here, opening there, making sure”.  This, “hand in hand”, shows readers the ghosts are in love.  The characters seem seek a treasure such as gold or money; however, in fact, the story is about treasure of love.

               "`Here we left it,’" she said. And he added, "`Oh, but here tool’" "`It's upstairs,’" she murmured. "`And in the garden,’" he whispered.  These conversation sounds like the ghost couple wants to find something that they hided before they passed away.  However, we can know the unseen nature of what they really want to find from this sentence, “But they had found it in the drawing room. Not that one could ever see them”.  The end of the sentence of this story, “The light in the heart”, it shows the treasure they want to find is love.

               The author Woolf uses lots of “here” and “it”.  From these words, readers must feel the ghost couple wants to find a treasure that can be seen or touched.  In Fact, it cannot be seen.  In the middle, Woolf describes, "’Here we slept,’ she says. And he adds, ‘Kisses without number.’ ‘Waking in the morning’— ‘Silver between the trees’— ‘Upstairs’— 'In the garden—‘ ‘When summer came—‘ 'In winter snowtime—‘ The doors go shutting far in the distance, gently knocking like the pulse of a heart.”  From this conversation, Woolf tells readers the ghost couple loves deeply and love is the treasure.

               In real life, love is the deepest theme for us.  There’s no one doesn’t give love someone else.  We want to give and receive love.  We always try to find deep true love.  If we can find deep love like the ghost couple, our lives will become bright and this love will be forever.
Work Cited

Woolf, Virginia. "A Haunted House." Trans. Array 50 GREAT SHORT STORY. New York: BANTAM CLASSIC, 1952. 383-385. Print.