In its final scene, the protagonist sees the "deep ravage of the features" of a mourning man, allowing him to realize the true nature of the title entity, which "had (*) sprung in that twilight of the cold April.
Eve Sedgwick's essay on this story replaces the last word of its title with "closet." One character in this work is compared to "a serene and exquisite but impenetrable sphinx" but later is an "artificial lily, wonderfully imitated and constantly kept... under some clear glass bell." In its final scene, the protagonist sees the "deep ravage of the features" of a mourning man, allowing him to realize the true nature of the title entity, which "had (*) sprung in that twilight of the cold April." The protagonist flings himself on the tomb of the woman who loved him at the end of this work, whom he had told in Pompeii of "something rare and strange, possibly prodigious and terrible" which is his fate. For 10 points, name this short story in which the death of May Bartram precipitates the revelation of the title monster for John Marcher, a work of Henry James.
Eve Sedgwick's essay on this story replaces the last word of its title with "closet.
"The {Beast} in the {Jungle}"