Essay: The Red Room
... someone crouching to waylay me¡¡± The writer did not visually describe a ghost, but made it invisible. It creates even more fear and suspense. ¡°The shadow I have feared and fought against returned, and crept in against me¡¡± The young man cannot see what he was fighting against that made him confused and frightened. Also, at the beginning of the story, the writer described three other characters: Man with withered arm, an old women and a man with shade. ¡°¡A monstrous shadow of him crouched upon the wall and mocked his action as he poured the drink...¡± By describing the man with shade ¡°monstrous¡± that made him more mysterious, and the place more fearsome. The young man at the beginning was very confident in himself that ghost and supernatural things doesn¡¯t exist ¡°¡¯Eight-and-twenty years,¡¯ said I, ¡®I have lived, never a ghost I have seen yet.¡¯¡± But he begins to panic as he saw the surroundings. ¡°Then, with my hand in the pocket that held my revolver, I advanced¡¡± Soon panic became fear as all weird things started to happen ¡°¡¯Steady on¡¯ I said. ¡®These candles are wanted,¡¯ speaking with a half-hysterical facetiousness¡¡± In the end fear defeated him, and he tried to escape it: ...