By Edgar Allan Poe

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 Exposition

- Wounded, the narrator takes refuge at nightfall with his valet, Pedro, in an apartment in the turret of a grand but gloomy chateau in Italy's Apennines Mountains. Pedro had broken into the building

 Rising Action
- Found A small book on the bed describes the -

paintings. He saw a portrait of a woman who was the absolutely lifelike expression on her face. He then looks up the oval portrait in the book. It says the lady was the wife of a painter who loved his art more than he loved her. One day, he expressed a desire to paint her portrait.

 Climax
- The painter force his wife to pose on the chair without

moving her body. - She does not complain and continues to smile for his portrait because she knows that her husband is obsessed with his project.

 Falling Action

- When the portrait was nearing completion, the painter was so engrossed with his work that he refused admittance to all observers.

 Resolution

- At long last, after the final stroke of his brush, the painter stood back to observe and said, This is indeed life itself! - In triumph, he turned around to his wife. She was dead.

 Obsession the artist become so engrossed in his work that he completely ignores his wife. Fatal love the young lady is attracted to an artist who burns with passion. But his passion is for his work, not for her. Submissiveness - the young lady was humble and obedient, even though her husband regards her as a mere object, she smiled on and still on, uncomplainingly.

 The narrator tells the story in first-person point of view. However, when presenting the history of the oval portrait, he quotes directly from a book that he finds in the apartment of the chateau. The quotation begins with these words: "She was a maiden of rarest beauty. . . ." The rest of the story consists entirely of a continuation of the quotation.

The time is the first half of the nineteenth century. The place is a chateau in the Apennines, a mountain range in central Italy.

Narrator: Wounded man who takes refuge with his valet in an abandoned chateau in Italy. He found a book that reveals about the oval potraits mystery.

 Pedro: Narrator's valet The narrator hired the valet in Spain and took him along on all his travels

Woman in the Portrait: Young wife who dies when her husband neglects her.

 Painter: Famous artist and husband of the woman in the portrait. He is so obsessed with his work that he ignores his wife. When painting her portrait, he sees her as an object to be captured on canvas, not as a woman who yearns for his love.