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Ben
- Janets husband who works in Chicago.
- Isn't home when Janet arrives.
- Very tight on money.
- 10 years older then Ben.
Janet
- The main character of the story.
- Who is thirty-one years and has been married for fifteen months.
- She depends on her husband for strength and protection.
The Storm
Janets husband Ben mysteriously murders a woman and hides her body in the trunk of a basement.
Ending
Janet discovers that Ben killed the woman, and she runs into the woods.
Describe the ring the dead woman was wearing?
What does Janet find on the table beside her?
How does Janet feel about her husband Ben?
What color is the dress of the dead woman?
How many weeks early does Janet arrive home?
- It is a stormy and rainy night.
- The house is isolated.
- There is flooding across the roads.
- The storm takes place in March.
- It is 10 P.M. when she arrives home.
Additional Characters
The woman down in the basement.
- The woman had worn a red dress. One hand had rested near the edge of the trunk, and on its third finger there had been a man's ring, a figure of a rampant lion with a small diamond between its paws.
A woman who comes back a week early from visiting her sister, to find an empty house during a horrible storm. She was expecting her husband Ben to be home when she arrived, but was not.The woman starts hearing strange noises and seeing things. She starts getting suspicious of her husband and why he is not home yet.
Soon she had only to get an armful of wood. Then she could have a fire, she would have light and warmth and comfort. She would forget these terrors. As she goes down to the basement, she sees something strange. The woman discovers a woman's corpse in the trunk. Afraid, when Ben finally returns home, she explains what she had found. He tries to prove to her that what she saw in the trunk, is not really there. As Ben reaches out to her, she runs into the darkness of the storm.
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