1. In what condition is the narrator when he is taken to the dungeon? What are the effects of long imprisonment and drugs? Why are his recollections so vague?
2. What has long suffering done to the narrator’s nervous system?
3.How big is the dungeon? When does the narrator find out its true size? Why doesn’t the narrator tell us right away what the correct size of the dungeon is?
4. Why do you think the first third of the story takes place in total darkness?
6. What pyhsical injury does the narrator sustain? Which is worse — what he physically suffers or what he imagines?
7. The narrator says from time to time he awoke, “all was madness” Is the narrator made? How is his madness different from Roderick Usher’s or Montresor’s? In what ways is it similar?