The Open Window
discuss the difference between appearance verses reality
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This is really a story within a story. Mr. Nuttel's begins the story when he visits the country to calm his nerves. Vera presents a "ghost story" that Mr. Nuttel interprets as reality. The appearance of reality thus comes into conflict with his own reality.