A Haunted House

by

Virginia Woolf

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Light and Darkness

In "A Haunted House," light symbolizes the joy that can be found in love and human connection. Throughout the story, “light” is connected to the ghosts’s search for their “treasure.” When the ghosts are moving…

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The House

Throughout the story, the titular house of "A Haunted House" represents safety, contentment, and the recovery of lost things, and in particular the ability of love to offer all of these things. From the beginning…

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