Pomegranate Seed | Themes

The Supernatural
In Edith Wharton’s ‘‘Pomegranate Seed,’’ the newly remarried widower, Kenneth Ashby, begins to receive letters from the ghost of his first wife, Elsie. Charlotte Ashby, Kenneth’s second wife, believes at first that the letters are from a former lover of Kenneth’s. When she realizes the truth about the letters, it is too late; Kenneth has gone to join Elsie, his first wife, in the afterworld. In the preface to her collection Ghosts, Wharton wrote that ‘‘the more one thinks the question over, the more one perceives the impossibility of...

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