How Does H.G. Wells Convey the Experience of Fear in the Red Room?
… the scepticism he shows saying, “…it will take a very tangible ghost to frighten me”. Either this scepticism or his natural dislike for them may have resulted in him lacking humility for the old people. He thinks of them as “…bent…wrinkled…aged” terms not normally used for people to whom respect is given. He also says that he thinks of old people as “Inhuman in senility”. He thinks of them as “trying to enhance the spiritual terrors of their house”. This he suspects due to the constant askance of a man who repeats many times, “It is your own choosing”. This phrase as well as annoying the narrator starts to build up the fear of readers of the story. The mans scepticism is still shown towards the final part of the beginning of the story when the narrator repeats twice the words, “”If” said I, “you will show me to this …
