The Open Window story
At a hunting lodge in Connecticut, a young man climbs through the window. However, when he emerges the other side he finds himself in a strange new world, unlike anything he's ever seen before. Directed by: TBA. Story by: Hector Hugh Munro.
9 total · 6 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| coping with stress at work | major | We learned the stress of being a schoolteacher had led Gregory to have a nervous breakdown. He was also on the verge of cracking while in the house with what he thought was Jane's crazy mother. |
| coping with the death of a family member | major | The viewer is made to think the mother had gone crazy with grief over the death of her husband and son. |
| cracking under pressure | major | We heard how Gregory had had a nervous breakdown and spent time in a sanatorium in Switzerland. |
| infatuation | major | Gregory fell for Jane and asked her to run away with him. |
| mother and daughter | major | Jane had a strained relationship with her mother. |
| pathological lying | major | Jane told Gregory an completely untrue story about how her step-father and his son had bother died tragically. When Gregory ran away in a panic after the father and son returned, Jane told her family that he had run away because he was afraid of dogs, and then began to tell them an elaborate fiction about Gregory. |
| father and son | minor | A father and son were depicted hunting in the woods in a flashback scene. |
| poetry | minor | The poetry teacher Gregory recited a Longfellow verse to Jane. |
| suicide | minor | Jane's step-father had allegedly shot himself after he accidentally killed his son. |