Annie Wilkes' "unique" point of view about the world around her effects her personality and Paul. The way that Annie seems to freeze up and become catatonic is one of the main reasons for the reader's and Paul's horror. On page 12 Paul describes the way Annie changes as such, "the black nothing of a crevasse folded into an alpine meadow, a blackness where no flowers grew." From that point on the narrator's fear of Annie escalated to a new level. Later on in the book, Annie becomes very casually terrifying, as if it were natural for her. On page 148, she says to Paul, "I'll kill you if you don't!" in response to him asking if he should continue with his writing. At this point in the book, Paul seems to be getting used to the nightmares that