The author of more than 25 books for children, Alice Low was born in New York City in

1926. She graduated from Smith College in 1947. Low published her first works for
children while raising her own three kids, and went on to combine writing with jobs
producing educational filmstrips, teaching creative writing, and doing editing and
editorial consulting. She has also volunteered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Perhaps best-known for her amusing fiction for young children — including the popular
The Witch Who Was Afraid of Witches, which she has since turned into a musical —
Low has also written nonfiction, adapted myths and legends, and selected works for
anthologies. Low lives in Briarcliff Manor, New York, where she enjoys singing and
playing tennis.

The tone of the story of Orpheus is serious because it aims to deliver the message of
acceptance seriously to the readers that they may understand that some things even if
how hard we try, if it's not meant to be, it's not gonna be meant to be. The mood is
tragic or sad because after all the efforts that Orpheus exerted, he still failed to get back
his wife. The technique used in the story is simple narration in a way that it can be
understood by readers of all ages. The purpose of the story is probably to remind
everyone that sometimes, the best solution is to accept that some things are meant to
be gone.