One of these qualifications is that the story’s plot is more important than its characters. In “The Pit And The Pendulum”, the reader knows very little about the narrator. Only a few characteristics are revealed about them. For example, the audience knows that the speaker is on trial for a crime. If found guilty, the story teller will be sentenced to torture and eventually death. The speaker is eventually found guilty, and thrown in a dungeon with instruments of torture and a circular pit. In the dungeon, the narrator is often starved and drugged. However, many facts are left out of the narration. The account does not reveal the speaker’s age, name, race, or even gender. The speaker also leaves out what they are on trial for. The story takes
