Short stories usually have to start well to attract a reader’s attention and keep it throughout. The best way to do this is to begin with an enticing level of tension and keep building up throughout the story. Wells uses literary techniques such as short clauses and good word choice to build up the tension. By doing so, he had written a story that is gripping and filled with tension. The title immediately attracts …showed first 75 words of 1947 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1947 total…This is a technique that Wells used to make the story more interesting and to keep the reader’s attention. Language usage played an important part and changed with the characters. Around the epiphany of the story, the narrator’s experience was described in short sentences and included lots of punctuation, which signified a sense of fear. Through the young man’s experience, The Red Room shows that fear is what we make of it.