The expression " she was dead " means that the women lost her life due to her husband's love towards art. He only gave time to his art but not to his wife. The painter lost his wife while he was concerned only about his art work. He didn't value his living wife but when she was dead her beauty was still alive in the oval portrait. The women lost her life because of her beauty in this short story. Her death symbolises the painter's passion towards his work. She was innocent but she lost her...

"The oval portrait" itself is symbolism of the woman's beauty and painter's passion to paint the oval portrait. It says that there were rich decoration which were tattered and antique where walls were hung with tapestry and bedecked with manifold and multiform memorial trophies, together with modern paintings in frames of rich golden arabesque which can sumbolise that the place was too old, abandoned and left all alone from very long time.The candelabrum there suggests that the place must...

The story itself has two different storied one about the narrator and second about the oval portrait which the narrator noticed. It is not clear why did the narrator go to that abandoned chateau which was not used by anyone for long time and why the narrator went there with his servant at the night time. The chateau was near a mountain range in Italy which was not used for very long time. At the night time when the candelabrum fell and then he saw a vivid light a picture which was never...

"The oval portrait " where there is a tragic and horror story of the women whose portrait was made signifies tha beauty of the woman was cause of her death. Since she was so beautiful that her husband wanted to make her portrait to keep her beauty alive but due to her husband's passions and obsession towards art he lost his living wife just to keep her beauty in the painting. It would be totally different if the painter would have valued his alive beautiful wife but it was too late.

"The oval portrait " is indeed a short horror story by Edgar Allan Poe which involved the disturbing circumstances surrounding the portrait in the old and abandoned chateaux. The narrator made forcible entrance in the chateau where he later at the same night saw an oval portrait which was never noticed before which was of a girl just ripening into womanhood who was just perfectly beautiful just by the appearance in the portrait which mearly had her head and shoulders. He then noticed and came...

The central theme of the story is that the painter loved his art more than his wife so be didn't really care about his alive wife but just went after his art. He thought his art was a living example but it was an example without the subject. The woman depicted in the oval portrait is the painter's wife who was maiden of rarest beauty and not more lovely than full of glee. She was the subject of the oval portrait.

The oval portrait was of a girl ripening into womanhood and she was a maiden of rarest beauty and not more lovely then full of glee. She was the portrait painter's wife. Seeing her beauty the painter wanted to make her portrait so the painter was successful to paint his wife's beauty but he lost his wife doing so. He completed his oval portrait but he lost the subject. He was in love with his art more than his wife.