Things that go ‘BUMP’ in the Night Poe is an eloquent writer who, in the art of making Pym come to life, finds a way to make the most memorable scenes clear and concise in the novel. Poe, often considered the master of the dark, has made a hellish nightmare scene so vivid that it leaves the reader afraid to scan the next line. The dream sequence is logically ordered from what could be the …showed first 75 words of 1511 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1511 total…for anyone to gather any more from it than he intended to give them. Because it is so logically ordered and timed, the dream will always remain a very powerful and compelling part of the story. Every detail and facet of the dream was so well placed by Poe that he was able to build on it and make the dream a more real and vital part of the story, as it will always be.