In the End It All Becomes True In the short story, The Masque of the Red Death, by Edgar Allen Poe was very dark and mysterious. Through the descriptions the characters were faced to deal with death even against their own will. Throughout the story the characters ran from the thoughts of death. For example, Poe says, “ dreams are stiff frozen as they stand. But the echoes of the chime die away-they have endured but …showed first 75 words of 357 total…

…showed last 75 words of 357 total…death but has no way around it. The mind was confusing him into blaming something but he just could not get away from the everlasting figure in the seventh room. Edgar Allen Poe shows a sense of struggle in a persons mind. They try to party and do everything so nothing could catch up to them but in the race they are faced to deal with death instead of the good things all the time.