The Canterville Ghost's Grammar and Syntax analysis

Introduction

• Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer, playwright and poet, from Victorian age.
• The Canterville Ghost was written by Oscar Wilde and published by first time in February 1887, in the magazine The Court and Society Review.
• He became one of the London’s most popular playwrights in 1890s.
• The Canterville Ghost tells the story of an American family, the Otis, who buy Canterville Chase an old haunted castle where its first owner’s phantom remains.
• The grammar and syntax analysis of this short story, The Canterville Ghost, will be based on its fifth chapter, when the first encounter between Sir Simon and Victoria Otis, is produced. The text was taken from Short Stories, Oscar Wilde, adapted by Paolo Bertinetti and Brian Hodgkiss, from Black Cat editorials.

The Canterville Ghost, Fifth Chapter



The Canterville Ghost



A few days after this, Virginia and her curly-haired cavalier went out riding on Brockley meadows, where she tore her habit so badly in getting through a hedge, that, on their return home, she made up her mind to go up by the back staircase so as not to be seen. As she was running past the Tapestry Chamber, the door of which happened to be open, she fancied she saw some one inside, and thinking it was her mother's maid, who sometimes used to bring her work there, looked in to ask her to mend her habit. To her immense surprise, however, it was the Canterville Ghost himself! He was sitting by the window, watching the ruined gold of the yellowing trees fly through the air, and the red leaves dancing madly down the long avenue. His head was leaning on his hand, and his whole attitude was one of extreme depression. Indeed, so forlorn, and so much out of repair did he look, that little Virginia, whose first idea had been to run away and lock herself in her room, was filled with pity, and determined to try and comfort him. So light was her footfall, and so deep his melancholy, that he was not aware of her presence till she spoke to him. 'I am so sorry for you,' she said, 'but my brothers are going back to Eton tomorrow, and then, if you behave yourself, no one will annoy you.'

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