The Labovian theory of a developed narrative contains six mandatory components. These components help the reader, or listener to a broader understanding of the thoughts and motivation of the internal narrator and the external storyteller. The abstract gives a representation about the story. The orientation draws a picture to familiarize the reader/listener of the necessary w's; who, what, when, where. The complicating action is the turn of events on which the story hinges. The …showed first 75 words of 1226 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1226 total…that Poe uses the narrator to show how when both sense and reason are distorted, it causes a frighteningly erie effect on the individual. This being a sickly cold and meticulous obsession to control the perception of the senses. The narrator comments in the opening paragraphs, 'Passion there was none.' I leave you with this, if this man had acted in the fit of passion, would he still have been undone by the heart?