Views of Heaven in From the Fifteenth District :: Fifteenth District

Views of Heaven in From the ordinal District Mavis Gallant presents us with a disconcerting emplacement of termination in the short story From the Fifteenth District, where dying is not a salvation from the pains of life but where the dead atomic number 18 forced to suffer eternally. In this story, the author sets out three evident cases of haunting, except that these hauntings are reported by the dead about the living. study E. Travella, killed during World War I, is angry that he is world exploited by the church service and the public. Mrs. Ibrahim is upset that her doctor and social worker are contend over her closing. Finally, Ms. Essling is frustrated that she is unable to get on with her life after death because of her husband. All three of these individuals are harboring anger and hostility after death and are unable to move on and rest in peace.      study Emery Travella feels as if the church is trying to capitalize on his death. When the Major vi sits the church for colloquy he realizes that the congregation is not there to pay gift to God but instead, the congregation sits, hushed and expectant straining to find out his footsteps (282) which signal his haunting of the church. The Major is upset that the church is allowing the congregation to exculpate a mockery of the church by devoting their time to him instead of the Communion which should be the reason they are there. The church is also trying to clear by the Majors haunting by allowing cameras and tape recorders into their place of prayer. Travella feels that the church is religious and is supposed to be seen as a place of worship, not a place to record abnormal phenomena. Major E. Travella feels that he is not being respected by the congregation, instead, he is being insulted by people only when caring about him because he is a ghost, not because of who he was as a living person.     Mrs. Ibrahim is both(prenominal)ered that her doctor and soci al worker cannot influence their differences in opinion in their accounts of her death. She does not see the point of contend over her because she is no longer living and has died of natural causes. They are both lying to save themselves from punishment, and even though no one was at fault, they were both trying to place the blame on the other.