I think the theme of monkey’s paw is fate. In the story of monkey’s paw the characters in the story had three wishes, in line 56 it says “An old fakir put a spell on it, he wanted to show that fate ruled people’s lives, and that to interfere with fate only caused deep sadness.” This shows that the old man wants fate to rule people and he did not want people to fight fate. Later in the story, Mr. White tried to wish for two hundred pounds, days after a man came to their house and told Mrs. White and Mr. White that their son has died. Then he said that he needed to pay them two hundred pounds. Mrs. White and Mr. White were extremely sad from that day on, so they took the monkeys paw and wished for their son again. Later, in line 318, Mrs. White says” the bolt at the top I can’t reach it.” This proves that fate is trying not to let her open the door for her son to come back, and at the last second Mr. White used the paw to make their son disappear again. From wishing for two hundred pounds and their son dying to reviving their son and still failing all leads me to believe that the theme of monkey’s paw is fate.