Throughout the film and literature in American society, characters’ mindsets and subconscious are challenged by the conflicts in the texts. In The Pit and the Pendulum written story by Edgar Allen Poe, the main character, a prisoner sentenced to death, has been locked in a cell. As time goes on, he begins to go ‘crazy’ and think that there is something in his water, until later when he wakes up, a blade swinging above him, inching closer and closer to his chest. In the filmic version of the story, a character named Don Medina goes through a similar internal conflict when he is told that his sister is dead, but later establishes that she is actually alive, and whole event was staged. While both stories have very different plots and characters,