Is this a famous and well-thought of story?
It is famous - probably for playing on the walled-in, buried alive fears. I don't know if it's well regarded, but many horror stories linger in that genre's canon because they linger in the imagination rather than because they are well made. It's no "Yellow Wallpaper" or "Monkey's Paw" though.
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We read "The Cask of Amontillado" in 10th grade - American lit. IIRC, Poe is known for believing that a short story should have one efffect that everything is in aid of - usually horror. My textbook suggested that for this story, the one effect might be irony.
At least the Black Cat has a kicker. There's no surprise in Cask. It's pretty obvious Fortunato is not long for this world, and the method of disposal isn't noteworthy.
Damn those classics...
Well, the plot of the Tell-Tale Heart goes, "So I killed him and buried him under the floor. And surprisingly, I felt guilty and got caught. The end." Poe's not so much about the clever plots.
At least there was guilt! Surprise! Being caught!
t, I'm stuck on (well, I'm stuck on 5 out of 8 of the questions, but the first is):
Let A be the set of numbers in (3/5,2/3) that have decimal expansions containing only finitely many zeros and sixes after the decimal point and no other integer. Find the least upper bound of A. (prove your answer)
What was the Poe (I think) story where the guy kills someone, and then becomes obsessed wiping his fingerprints off every object in the house?
At least there was guilt! Surprise! Being caught!
Yes, but in my opinion the main thrust of the story was more atmosphere than plotline. What happens in the Raven? There's a bird which for some reason reminds him of his dead girlfriend, the end?
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Oh dear, that sounds like something I used to be able to do. Sorry, Emily, I am no help whatsoever.
Okay, wait, finitely many sixes after the decimal, so the least upper bound would probably be 2/3, because for any .66...6 with n-many 6s you can always just add another 6 on the end and get a higher member of the set. And if you mix 0s in there, it'll get lower.
No, that's probably still no help.
I think that the reader was supposed to be surprised by the walling up, it's just that we all know the story now.
