Well, it depends on how you define a tragic love story. But from a certain perspective, The Oval Room does present elements that could classify it as such. The unfulfilled expectations and heartbreaks make it seem tragic.
Well, in 'the oval portrait story', there's this guy who finds himself in a spooky old place. He comes across an oval portrait. Basically, it tells the tragic story of a lady. Her husband was so into painting her that he didn't notice her deteriorating health while he painted, and she ended up dying. That's the gist of it.
The central theme of the 'The Oval Portrait' short story is about the sacrifice for art. The young woman in the story sacrifices her life, perhaps unknowingly, as her husband the artist is so focused on capturing her beauty in the portrait. It's a story that makes us think about the price that might be paid for the creation of great art.
The main characters are the artist and his young wife. The artist is the one who creates the oval portrait, and his wife is the subject of the portrait.
The pearl's change in the story was quite significant. Initially, it brought excitement and dreams of a better life. But as the plot unfolded, it attracted greed and envy from others, causing many hardships for the protagonist and his family.
Tears in the Moon on the Pearl in the Vast Sea was a famous novel allusion from Lin Daiyu's poem "Song of Burial Flowers" in the Ming Dynasty novel "Dream of the Red Chamber".
The original text was as follows:
The moon on the vast sea, the pearl has tears, the sun is warm in the blue field, the jade produces smoke.
This feeling can wait to be remembered, but at that time it was already lost.
This poem described the scene of Lin Daiyu's tears falling on the flowers when she buried the flowers. Among them, the phrase "the moon in the vast sea has tears" was considered to be the origin of this allusion.
The main meaning of this allusion was that the precious things and beautiful experiences in one's life often gradually passed away with the passage of time, causing one to feel a sense of regret and emotion. Just like what Lin Daiyu said in her poem, those beautiful things seemed to have happened yesterday, but they had already become blurred and could only be rekindled in her dreams.
This allusion was also often used to describe people's emotional loss and sadness to express their recollection and nostalgia for beautiful things.
I don't know exactly who Pearl White is in this story without more details. She could be a fictional character created specifically for this ghost story.