A Study Guide for Edith Wharton's "Pomegranate Seed"
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Pomegranate Seed
Edith Wharton
1931
Introduction
Edith Wharton composed the ghost story, Pomegranate Seed,
near the end of 1930, and saw it published by the Ladies’ Home Journal in 1931. The tale was subsequently included in Wharton’s collection of short fiction, The World Over (1936), and then in her collection, Ghosts, published in 1937, the last year of the author’s life. Readers of that collection admired Wharton’s skill in writing tales of the supernatural, but several reviewers believed the ghost story to be a less important genre than the novels of social observation by which Wharton had made her reputation over the previous decades. While Wharton’s novels remain at the center of her achievements, her ghost stories have gained critical acknowledgment over the years. Pomegranate Seed
is admired for the relentless pacing of its suspenseful plot, for the particularity with which its principal characters are rendered, and for the chilling evocation of the supernatural achieved by the story’s ending. Pomegranate Seed
surely possesses the thermometrical quality
cited by Wharton as the hallmark of good ghost stories; she believed a well-crafted ghost story should send a cold shiver down the reader’s spine. The story’s title is derived from the Greco-Roman myth of Persephone, which Wharton is likely to have read in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Abducted by Pluto, the Lord of the Dead, Persephone is not permitted to leave the underworld permanently because she has eaten six pomegranate seeds in the gardens of death. Contemporary critical debate on Wharton’s story has focused,