What is the climax of The Monkey's Paw?

Answer 1

To do it yo self bih

Answer 2

I recall the couple's son (Lee Majors) was a race car driver and was to race one evening. The couple had made the first wish for money I recall. Soon after, the father was called to the race track after word of their son's involvement in a car crash. The father came home with sad eyes to tell the mother that their son had been killed in the accident at the track. The mother began to weep, but then excitement came to her face as she exclaimed, "I can wish him back to life"!!! She then grasped the monkey's paw and wished for her son to be brought back from the dead. At that moment, the door bell rang and the mother (believing it to be her son) ran for the door. Before the woman had a chance to open it, the father quickly wished for his son to be sent back to the grave. The woman opened the door only to find her son's bloodied scarf he had received from her for good luck on the door step. The father told his distraught wife he wished their son back to the grave because he had seen his body after death, and did not want her to see what was left of him come back to life. In all of the Hitchcock series, this was perhaps the creepiest and darkest of all. Eeeeech!

There is also a short story by W.W. Jacobs entitled the Monkey's Paw which is similar in theme but varies in content. The son is Herbert White and is killed working at Maw and Meggins when he is caught in the machinery. His death comes after the family's first wish for money and upon his death, the family receives a grievance pay from the son's employer in the exact amount wished for. CREEPY! That is when Mrs. White comes up with the idea of wishing him back to life. The rest is much the same, though without a bloody scarf!

I belive that the climax of the Monkey's Paw is the moment when the father quickly wishes for his son to return to the grave or to be dead again.