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The whole story is suspenseful in the way that it slowly is having the painter's wife die, but he doesn't realize it. Because of this you don't know if he is ever going to pay attention to her, so that she would have lived, or die.

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http://poestories.com/read/ovalportrait

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"And then the brush was given, and then the tint was placed; and, for one moment, the painter stood entranced before the work which he had wrought; but in the next, while he yet gazed, he grew tremulous and very pallid, and aghast, and crying with a loud voice, 'This is indeed Life itself!' turned suddenly to regard his beloved: -- She was dead!" The painter does not realize it, but his wife was slowly decreasing in health, and then died.

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The story is telling a tale about how art has "Killed" someone, but really it was the idea of art, and the women's husband not paying attention to her.

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The image was depicted as being so real, and to have life which made it like a supernatural being, or thing.

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How the narrator said his story was like he was very focused on the painting and not really anything else.

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In this story the man is painting a portrait of his wife, because of her beauty.

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"It is a stately church, surrounded by an enclosure of the loveliest green, within which appear urns, pillars, obelisks, and other forms of monumental marble, the tributes of private affection, or more splendid memorials of historic dust." This adds to the book because it is very good at helping you picture/imagine what this chuch looked like/it's surroundings.

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Nathaniel Hathorne was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. He added a "W" to his last name to make Hawthorne, so he wasn't in relation to his ancestors. He tried to suppress his first piece of work because he felt it was not equal to all of his later pieces. A lot of his work was dark romanticism. His themes often center on the inherent evil and sin of humanity, and his works often have moral messages and deep psychological complexity.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KVpYdQyPh0

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caprices- A sudden and unaccountable change of mood or behavior

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eccentricity- An eccentric act, habit, or thing

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obelisks-a stone pillar, typically having a square or rectangular cross section and a pyramidal top, set up as a monument or landmark.

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solemnized- to duly perform- a ceremony, that especially of marriage

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qttwEwfebo

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http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/WeddingKnell.html