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

Views of Heaven in From the Fifteenth soil Mavis Gallant presents us with a disconcerting view of destruction in the short story From the Fifteenth District, where dying is not a salvation from the pains of life but where the dead be hale to suffer eternally. In this story, the author sets out three distinct cases of haunting, drop that these hauntings are reported by the dead about the living. Major E. Travella, killed during military man War I, is angry that he is being exploited by the perform and the public. Mrs. Ibrahim is upset that her doctor and social worker are fighting everywhere her death. Finally, Ms. Essling is frustrated that she is unable to get on with her life after death because of her husband. each three of these individuals are harboring anger and hostility after death and are unable to move on and rest in peace.     Major Emery Travella feels as if the church is trying to capitalize on his death. When the Major visits the church for s acramental manduction he realizes that the congregation is not there to pay tribute to deity but instead, the congregation sits, hushed and expectant straining to hear his footsteps (282) which guide his haunting of the church. The Major is upset that the church is allowing the congregation to make 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 profit by the Majors haunting by allowing cameras and tape recorders into their g everyplacen of prayer. Travella feels that the church is sacred and is sibyllic to be seen as a place of worship, not a place to record abnormal phenomena. Major E. Travella feels that he is not being value by the congregation, instead, he is being insulted by people only affectionateness about him because he is a ghost, not because of who he was as a living person.     Mrs. Ibrahim is twainered that her doctor and social worker cannot s ettle their differences in opinion in their accounts of her death. She does not see the point of fighting over her because she is no longer living and has died of natural causes. They are both equivocation to save themselves from punishment, and even though no one was at fault, they were both trying to place the blame on the other.