The Canterville Ghost

The Canterville ghost. Plot.
The story begins when Hiram B. Otis and his family move into Canterville Chase, despite warnings from Lord Canterville that the house is haunted. The Otis familyincludes Mr. and Mrs. Otis, their daughter Virginia, and twin boys. No member of the Otis family believes in ghosts, but shortly after they move in, none of them can deny the presence of Sir Simon (TheGhost). The family hears clanking chains, they witness re-appearing bloodstains on the carpet, and they see strange apparitions in various forms. But none of these scare the Otises in the least. In fact,upon hearing the clanking noises in the hallway, Mr. Otis promptly gets out of bed and pragmatically offers the ghost Tammany Rising Sun Lubricator to oil his chains.
Despite Sir Simon’s attempts toappear in the most gruesome (extremely unpleasant and shocking) guises (forms), the family refuses to be frightened, and Sir Simon feels increasingly helpless and humiliated. When Mrs. Otis notices amysterious red mark on the carpet, she simply replies that she does “not at all care for blood stains in the sitting room.” When Mrs. Umney, the housekeeper, informs Mrs. Otis that the blood stain isindeed evidence of the ghost and cannot be removed, Washington Otis, the oldest son, suggests that the stain be removed with Pinkerton’s Champion Stain Remover and Paragon Detergent: A quick fix, likethe Tammany Rising Sun Lubricator, and a practical way of dealing with the problem.
Mrs. Otis is “a very handsome middle-aged woman” who has been “a celebrated New York belle.” Her expression of"modern" American culture surfaces when she immediately resorts to using the commercial stain remover to obliterate (to destroy something completely) the bloodstains and when she expresses an interest injoining the Psychical Society to help her understand the ghost.
The most colorful character in the story is undoubtedly Sir Simon, the ghost, who goes about his duties with theatrical panache(a...