His constant use of adjectives draws the reader in and really affects them. The tone that seems to be told by someone mentally deranged sets the mood for the duration of the story. For example: “The old man was dead. I removed the bed and examined the body. Yes, he was dead, dead… His eye would never bother me again”. (Poe 1591) Only a madman would kill someone for a defective eye. It may have been terror in the beginning when there was suspense that something bad might happen, but overall the story embodies horror because the narrator took action and killed the man for something so miserable. This horror affected the reader's perspective even more towards the end, when no sound could be heard except the beating of the man's heart in the