However, Sir Simon makes the best of the situation and relishes his role as the ghost. After his death, Sir Simon is doomed to haunt Canterville Chase.
Sir Simon is left to slowly starve to death and his disappearance remains a mystery for most people. As punishment for his crime, Lady Eleanor's brothers chain Sir Simon to a wall with some food and water placed just out of his reach. Three hundred years before the story begins, Sir Simon de Canterville murders his wife Lady Eleanor at their home Canterville Chase. "The Canterville Ghost" has been adapted numerous times for other media, serving as the basis for stage plays, musicals, operas, animated and live-action films and television programs, radio plays and comic books. The story contains the famous line, "We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except of course, language." Much of the humor in the story is derived from the clash of cultures which occurs when members of the modern and largely materialistic American Otis family find themselves facing old English traditions and a centuries-old ghost. At the end of the story, the ghost asks for Virginia's help to lift the curse which is on him and allow him to rest in peace. He grows to despise them all, except for the teenage daughter Virginia, who he feels is different from the rest of her family. The ghost, who had been frightening all those who stayed at Canterville Chase for three hundred years, takes the Americans' unwillingness to be scared by him as a great insult. They soon accept that the ghost is real but are not frightened by it. They are warned that the house is haunted before they move in but are unconcerned at first. The plot is set in motion when the American Otis family moves into the old English country house Canterville Chase. It was republished in an anthology of Wilde's works, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories in 1891. It was first published in two parts in the February 23 and Maissues of the British magazine The Court and Society Review.
"The Canterville Ghost" is a short story by the Irish author Oscar Wilde which contains elements of both horror and comedy. 1906 illustration for "The Canterville Ghost" by Wallace Heard Goldsmith.
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