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Compare and Contrast “The Canterville Ghost” by Oscar Wilde and “Company” by Robert Grossmith
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Compare and Contrast "The Canterville Ghost" by Oscar Wilde and "Company" by Robert Grossmith The short stories "The Canterville Ghost" by Oscar Wilde and "Company" by Robert Grossmith are both ghost stories. Both stories have the same starting, which are of a new family that moved into an old house which had been abandoned for a long time. "The Canterville Ghost" is set in England in the 1880's. It is about a 300 years old ghost that had scared off all the people that had come to live in his mansion. Running through it is a theme of making jokes about the high society of England and Americans in general. This was something Mr. Otis (the American who bought the mansion) said "I reckon that if there were such a thing as a ghost in Europe, we'd have it at home in a very short time in one of our...
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