How does the final scene in ""The Vampire Maid"" work to fulfill the story’s purpose?

By revealing the vampire in the closing scene of the story, the plot's goal was accomplished.

Hume Nisbet wrote a short fiction called "The Vampire Maid." The story is told from the perspective of a man. The unidentified narrator is dissatisfied with his posch city existence and wishes to live alone. In Westmorland, he seeks solitude and finds it in a cottage with a young daughter, Ariadne, a widowed mother, Mrs. Brunell.

The widow accepts the narrator and lets him stay.

It establishes a terrifying atmosphere. It also revealed who Vampire was, thereby fulfilling the story's title.

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The final scene in the story fulfilled the purpose of the story by revealing the vampire.

Explanation:

"The Vampire Maid" is a short story written Hume Nisbet. The story is told from a guy's point of view. The unnamed narrator is bored from his posch city life and thus decides to live in solitude. He searches for a solitude place in Westmorland and comes to a cottage with a widowed mother, Mrs Brunell, and a young daughter, Ariadne. The widow welcomes narrator and allows him to stay there. Soon the narrator and Ariadne fall in love. The narrator describes his first meeting with Ariadne, that he was flushed of his strength. And slowly slowly he begin losing his strength as he continues to grow in love with Ariadne.

In the last scene of the story, the narrator, one night, keeps his room window open and dream that Ariadne was sucking his blood from his arms. To his surprise, when he wokes up, he saw Ariadne in her true nature, a Vampire.

This scene fulfill the purpose of the story in many ways. It creates the theme of horror. It also revealed who was Vampire, fulfilling the title of the story as well.

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