More questions than answers for The Enchanted Garden

Calvino opens up the story with another set of characters that are not unlike the first two in the beginning story. In the first paragraphs there's an overwhelming sense that the characters are the same, yet entirely different. Almost as if it's American Horror Story and its the same actors but under different character names. It's a little hard to understand the meaning and purpose of the Enchanted Garden. What does this out-of-place garden represent in the real world, if it represents anything at all? And why are the characters in this story so similar to the ones before it? The Enchanted Garden also reminds me of Hansel and Gretel; two children walk into a forest that is magical, but don't belong there. It also reminds me of Bridge To Terabithia in which another set of kids enter of a forest to find it magical and enchanted. The story reads very unsettling through the constant discussion of this overwhelming anxiety that the two kids have. As a reader, I felt anxious wondering if anything were to happen to these kids; it reads like the lead up in a horror movie right before the crazed killer makes a big entrance. Also, the little pale boy in the villa adds more questions to the story. Why is he so anxious? Was he another wondering traveler that then got stuck in this "magical place"? He expresses the same anxiety as the children even though he seems to be apart of the scenery.