Both the stories "The Open Window" and "The Landlady” describe a person's creepy experience as a guest in a foreign place. Write an essay that analyzes how the authors use character interactions and dialogue to develop a story that
builds mystery, tension and/or surprise. Be sure to use support from both texts in developing your response.

Read the excerpt from flannery o'connor's "the life you save may be your own although the old woman lived in this desolate spot with only her daughter and she had never seen mr. shiftlet before, she could tell, even from a distance, that he was a tramp and no one to be afraid of. his left coat sleeve was folded up to show there was only half an arm in it and his gaunt figure listed slightly. which phrase connects these characters to the southern gothic genre? half an arm she had never seen his left coat sleeve folded up