Edgar Allen Poe uses anger in his story this creates the mood. In the story the character gets drunk and takes his anger out on the cat and then later his wife. The mood in this story is important because if he didn’t use anger, it wouldn’t be a horror story. Anger and hate makes stories scary, and it’s what makes people act out by killing.
Situational irony plays an important part in this story. Situational irony is when something