Edgar Allan Poe Setting

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While reading Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, the two terms that I believe would fit best is conflict (person vs. self) and setting. Throughout his whole story, he describes the setting in a very thorough way that makes you visualize it, ‘upon the bleak walls—upon the vacant eye-like windows—upon a few rank sedges—upon a few white trunks of decayed trees’ (Poe, 1839). There was a very spooky theme to his story as well which made it very easy to engage into the story, ‘During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens..’ (Poe, 1839). It all depends on what kind of stories you like to read but in my case, I truly enjoyed it because you play out a movie in your