Poe's Short Stories

How does the setting add to the mood of story?

the oval portrait

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The setting of the novel shrouds the story in mystery...... a gloomy, abandoned chateau...... rich tapestries, angular architecture. The house is dark and slowly feeling its aged... it's decayed and wounded..... wounded like the narrator.

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The Oval Portrait