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The man with the “withered” arm is one of the elderly custodians who look after Lorraine Castle. Despite the fact that he seems to treat the narrator like “an intruder,” he is the most helpful in the narrator’s exploration of the Red Room. He provides the narrator with instructions to the room, though he insists he won’t be joining him. When the narrator wakes up the following day, the man with the withered arm no longer looks at him as “an intruder,” but rather as “one who grieves for a broken friend”; they have both been deeply affected by the Red Room. The man is surprised to learn from the narrator that the room isn’t haunted, as he had presumed “the old earl” to be the culprit of the hauntings.
The Man with the Withered Arm Quotes in The Red Room
The The Red Room quotes below are all either spoken by The Man with the Withered Arm or refer to The Man with the Withered Arm . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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The Red Room Quotes
At the door I turned and looked at them, and saw they were all close together, dark against the firelight, staring at me over their shoulders, with an intent expression on their ancient faces.
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I must confess that the oddness of these three old pensioners in whose charge her ladyship had left the castle, and the deep-toned, old-fashioned furniture of the housekeeper’s room in which they forgathered, affected me in spite of my efforts to keep myself at a matter of fact phase.
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The Man with the Withered Arm Character Timeline in The Red Room
The timeline below shows where the character The Man with the Withered Arm appears in The Red Room. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
The Red Room
The narrator assures two elderly custodians—an old man with a “withered arm" and an old woman—that he could only be frightened by “a very tangible ghost.” At...
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