![]() Immediately, John and Jenny hear knocking on their front door, and Jenny rushes to open it. Jenny then decides to use the paw to bring Herbert back to life and makes a wish that he be returned to the living. After Herbert's heartbreaking funeral, Jenny and Rose berate John for his wish, and John is overwhelmed with remorse. The lawyer consoles John, then gives him an insurance check for two hundred pounds. The next morning, a lawyer from the electrical plant knocks on the Whites's front door and informs John that, while telling his co-workers about the monkey's paw, Herbert laughed so hard he fell into the machinery and was mangled to death. After Jenny retires for the night, however, John takes out the paw and wishes for £200 to buy a home for Herbert and his fiancée Rose. Later John confesses to Jenny that he took the paw as a lark and jokingly tells his son Herbert about Tom's story just as Herbert is leaving for his night shift at the local electrical plant. The usually shy clerk, made bold by drink, is fascinated by the paw and steals it from Tom's coat as he is leaving his house. After Tom, drunk on John's strong grog, finishes his last tale, he takes out the legendary monkey's paw from his coat pocket and shows it to John and Jenny. According to the Hindu legend, anyone holding the paw may make three wishes that will come true, but will come true in a terrible, unexpected fashion. Tom's final story is of a monkey paw that a Hindu fakir once had given him. Although they suspect that Tom exaggerates his stories for effect, the Whites listen intently to his accounts of the exotic East. ![]() During a blizzard, Sergeant Major Tom Morris, a one-armed British veteran, tells John White, a timid old clerk who is his longtime friend, and John's wife Jenny tales of India.
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