Dissecting the Absurd: Understanding Grandpa’s Fate in “Two Thousand Fleas”
The Essence of the Story Ted Hughes’s short story, “Two Thousand Fleas,” is a bizarre and unsettling piece of literature, lodging itself in the reader’s memory with its grotesque imagery and darkly comic tone. The story follows the inexplicable and terrifying infestation of a house by, as the title suggests, a colossal number of fleas, … Read more
