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4th Paragraph Suspense Analysis

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The setting in the 4th paragraph helped create suspense by leading it to the death of the old man. The setting in which took place in the old man’s room, with darkness felled in “that no light shone out.. every night[,] just at twelve”(Poe 1-2). Therefore with night time being the setting it help create suspense so that light could not be shone in order for him to sneak into his room. As well as the pacing of the story help work together to create suspense by his pacing being able to finish his work. The pacing of the narrator entering the room he would move very slowly; when his head was well in “[he] undid the lantern cautiously- oh so cautiously”(Poe 1). Both the setting and the pacing were part of what made the 4th paragraph suspense due
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